Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-04-14

been awful and rapid. We are a young
people, with all the vices of hoary en-
pire on our heads
NECESSITY OF A MEDIATOR BETWEEN
GOD AND MAN.
No man hath seen God at any time
and the power which Is unseen is terrible
Fancy trembIes tefore its own picture, and
superstition throws its darkest imagery
over it. The voice OF the thunder is aw-
full, but not so awful as the conception of
that angry being who sits in mysterious
conc ealment, and gives it all its energy
In these sketches Of the ina gination, fear
is sure 10 predominant. We gather an
impression Of Natures God, from those
scenes where Nature threatens, and looks
dreadful. We speak not of the theology
Of the schools, and the empty parade Of
its demonstrations. We speak of the the
ology Of actual feeling, that theology
which is sure TO derive its lessons from the
quarter whence the human heart derives
its strongest sensations, and we refer both
to your own feelings, and to the history Of
this worlds opinions, if God is more felt
, or more present TO your maglnatlons IN
the peacetulness Of srring, or The lowell
ness of summer landscape, than when
winter with its mighty elements sweeps
the forest of its leaves, when the rushing
of the storm is heard upon our windows,
and man fees to cover himself from the
desolation that walketh over the surface of
! the word.
If nature and her elements be dreadful,
! how dreadful that mysterious and unseen
Being, who sits behind the elements he
has formed, and gives birth and move
ment to all things! 1t is the mystery in
which he is shrouded-it is that dark and
unknown region Of spirits, where he
reignS in glory, and stands Ieveaied to the
immediate view ofhis worshippers, ii is
the inexplicable manner of his being so
far removed from that province of sense,
within which the understanding of man
can expatiate-it is its total unlIkeness to
all that nature can furnish to the eve of
the body, or to the conception Of the mind
which animates it, it is all this which
throws the Being who formed US at dis.
lance so inaccessible-whic throws an
impenetrable mantle over his way, and
gives US the idea Of some dark and I'm,
trodden interval betwixt the & lory of God
and all that is visible and created
Now, Jesus Christ has lifted up this
mysterious veil, or rather he has enter,c
within it. He is now at the right hanc
Of God; and though the brightness OF his
Fathers glory, and the express image Q
his person, he appeared to US IN. the pal
Pable characters of man; and those hlgf
attributes Of truth, and justice, and mercy
which could not te felt or understood, al
they existed in the abstract and invisible
Deitv are brought down to our cOncep
tons in a manner the most familiar ant
= impressive By having been made, through
Jesus Christ, to flow IN utterance from hu
t man lips, and to beam in expressive phys
f iognomv from human countenanCe.
So long as had nothing before ire bu
. the unseen spirit of God, my mind wan
: dered in uncertainty. nv busy fancy wa
e free to expatiate, AMI its images tiled my
J, heart with disquietude and terror. Blu
t in the life, and person, and history ofJesu
: Christ, the attributes of the Lefty ar
q brought down to the observation OF tn
= senses; and can no longer mistake them
!, when in the Son, who is the express I'm
}, age Of his Father, | see them carrie
= home to my understanding BY the evIdenc
d and expression Of human organs, when
: See the kindness ofthe Father, in tn
y tears which fell from his Son at the tom
of Lazarus-when see his justice blend
+ ed with his mercy, in the exclamation
5, 20 Jerusalem, Jerusalem" by Jesus Chris
IS uttered with tone more tender than IN
If sympathy of human bosom ever promt'
d ed, while he bewailed the sentence Of II
desolation-and in the look Of energy an
b significance which be threw upon Pete
e feel he jud gment Of God himself, flash
1. ing conviction upon my conscience, an
n calling ne to repent while his wrath
c, suspended, and he sill waiteth to be gra
j. ciouS.
is And It was not temporary characte
J. which he assumed. The human kline
TO ness and the human expression whic
le makes it Ineligible 10 US, remained Wit
ID him till his latest hour. They survive
lie his resurrection, and he has carried the
r along with him to the mysterious pla<
n which he now occupies, How do
le know all this know it from his hist,
w l'ry; l hear it in the pairing words to h
IL mother from the cross; | see it in his Ill
K altered form. when he rose triumEha
Ct from the grave; l perceive 1t in his tie
derness for the scrrpIes of the unbelie
I'd ing Thomas; and l am given to unde
of stand, that as his body retained the in
Iy preston of his Own suferings, so his mil
O. retains sympathy for ours, as warm, al
be gracious, and endearing, as ever. "
st have Priest on high, who is toucht
ms with fellow feeling OF our in6rmilies.
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