. Perfect pearls of poetry and prose; the most unique, touching, inspiring and beautiful literary . |IIE Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar characterfrom the daily contemplation of superior hcings and eternal intcr-f••* osts. Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, ank overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to1 the will of the Great Being for whose power nothing was tooJ vast, for whoso inspection nothing was too minute. To know hirn, to serve him, to enjoy him was with them tlio great end of rejeotcd with ajntom|)t th
. Perfect pearls of poetry and prose; the most unique, touching, inspiring and beautiful literary . |IIE Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar characterfrom the daily contemplation of superior hcings and eternal intcr-f••* osts. Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, ank overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to1 the will of the Great Being for whose power nothing was tooJ vast, for whoso inspection nothing was too minute. To know hirn, to serve him, to enjoy him was with them tlio great end of rejeotcd with ajntom|)t the ceremonious homage which other sects. EFFIE DEiVr;s. •A heroine of Scotts Heart of Midlothian,From a famous painting by J. F. THE PURITANS. 183 substituted for tho pure worship of the soul. Instead of catchingoccasional glimpses of the Deity through an obscuring veil, they aspiredto gaze full on his intolerable brightness, and to commune with him faceto face. Hence originated their contempt for terrestrial distinctions. Thedifference between the greatest and the meanest of mankind seemed tovanish, when compared with the boundless interval which separated thewhole race from him on whom their own eyes were constantly recognized no title to superiority but his favor; and, confident ofthat favor, they despised all the accomplishments and all the dignities ofthe world. If they were unacquainted with the works of philosophersand poets, they were deeply read in the oracles of God. If their nameswere not found in the registers of heralds, they were recorded in theBook of Life. If their steps were not accomp
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