ore delightful than any thing that can be met with
in the conversations of his creatures.

15. Even in the hour of death, he considers the pains of his
dissolution to be nothing else but the breaking down of that partition,
which stands betwixt his soul and the sight of that Being who is always
present with him, and is about to manifest itself to him in fulness of
Joy.

16. If we would be thus happy and thus sensible of our Maker's presence,
from the secret effects of his mercy and goodness, we must keep such a
watch over all our thoughts, that, in the language of the scripture, His
soul may have pleasure in us. We must take care not to grieve his holy
spirit, and endeavour to make the meditations of our hearts always
acceptable in his sight, that he may delight thus to reside and dwell in
us.

17. The light of nature could direct _Seneca_ to this doctrine in a very
remarkable passage among his epistles; _Sacer inest in nobis spiritus,
bonorum malorumque custos et observator; et quemadmodum nos illum
tractamus, ita et ille nos_. 'There is a holy spirit residing in us, who
watches and observes both good and evil men, and will treat us after the
same manner that we treat him.' But I shall conclude this discourse with
those more emphatical words in divine revelation: _If a man love me, he
will keep my words; and my father will love him, and we will come unto
him, and make our abode with him_.

_Reflections on the third Heaven_.

SPECTATOR, No. 580.

1. I considered in my two last letters, that awful and tremendous
subject, the ubiquity or Omnipresence of the Divine Being. I have shewn
that he is equally present in all places throughout the whole extent of
infinite space. This doctrine is so agreeable to reason, that we meet
with it in the writings of the enlightened heathens, as I might shew at
large, were it not already done by other hands. But though the Deity be
thus essentially present through all the immensity of space, there is
one part of it in which he discovers himself in a most transcendant and
visible glory.

2. This is that place which is marked out in scripture under the
different appellations of _Paradise, the third Heaven, the throne of
God, and the habitation of his glory_. It is here where the glorified
body of our Saviour resides, and where all the celestial hierarchies,
and innumerable hosts of angels, are represented as perpetually
surrounding the seat of God with hallelujahs and hymns