Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-07-01

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are above !? Be it your solicitous care, to s
keep your hearts in the love of God by
praying in the Holy Ghost Be assur
ed, that when most deeply rooted and
grounded in love- you will be able to put
forth the best energies of your minds, in
endeavoring to comprehend what is the
breadth and length and depth and height;
and to kn0o0 the love of Christ, which !
passeth knowledge!
Filthy, We must habitually realize the
divine inspection of our thoughts.
Suppose that your unexpressed and most
secret thoughts could be ascertained by a
fellow-creature, as soon as they found
place in your mind. Suppose that some
one individual had certain means Of know
ing your thoughts, over which yon could
exercise no control. What emotions
would you feel in his presencel What
intense anxiety would you betray, as Well
as feel to repress the very first rising OF
Thoughts which you might deem unwor-
thy of your character, and, III his estIma-
ton, disgraceful But are you not, at the
very moment, and in every situation,
whether acting, or speaking, or thinking,
t under the inspection of an omnlclent aud
omnpresent eye? And is ii not with Him,
as the Judge of ALL that, in sense inap-
= pIicab!e TO any human observer, you
} have especially to do? Let, then, the
>, emphatic words of Hagar dwell forever
e in the imagination of the Thoughts of your
t hearts - Thou, God seest me!' Enter
! deeply into the spirit which regulated the
n Thoughts ofthe Psalmist - 0 Lord, thou
: hast searched me and known ne. Thou
V knowest my down sitting, and mine up
t rising !; thou understandest my thou hts
= afar off Thou compassest my path and
: my lying down, and art acquainted with
n all my ways
1t Lastly 1t is requisite, that we frequent.
ID ly take retrospect of the history OF oul
h Thoughts, for the purpose Of self-examma
h, ton.
e, With unfeigned sincerity may we say
V, TO Him, who knows the recesses of ouI
hearts, far better than we know them our
r, Selves Search me, o God, and know ny
n heart; try NE, and know my Thoughts
IT. and see land enable me to see) if there b
any wicked way in me; and lead me il
- the way everlasting.' Awfully hypocr
III ical would it be to offer these petition:
10 without the most determined efforts {
We scrutinizing self-inspecton. At the clos
of of every dav, and still more strenuousI
&c at the close of every ampler period OF on
he time, let US call ourselves 10 render an a
of count of the employment Of our Thoughts
he Let the detection of evil thoughts produc
IN, It's proper and legitimate effects. Let
ire humble US in the dust of AMUSEMENT J.
he it conduct US to the cross Of the Redeem
he er; let it rouse US 10 greater watchfune
zen In guarding against the intrusion of va
Sc and evil thoughts and let it urge US
lar more earnest prayer that the God of {
la grace would effectualy control and san
too tifV the thoughts of our hearts, by 'Wor
vi ing in US all the good pleasure of his goo
Or ness, and the work of faith with power.
pen In conclusion, let me suggest The inql
ich nv, whether the consider atoms which ha
can been adduced ought not 10 excite in
{ to minds of some who have thought but lit
i'm on the subject serious misgivings and ;
rts. prehensions, with regard to their char;
r of ter in the sight of God Does not &C
Y of science, at this moment, bring against Y
no a most appalling charge! Does it /
old charge YOU with innumerabIe iniquit
in of thou ht? Does it not charge y
fec with the additional guilt of thinking liz
the " of those iniquities? You cannot de-
the that many Of your sinful thoughts h;
md been rapidly maturing into principles
Y, to action, and have wanted only the force
the besetting temptation to brig them
2 ac- practical development. You cannot
liable nv, that among the countless multnud
the thoughts, which have crowded the en-
this space between the morning and the eV
TOO ing of many a day, there have been
has stances in which not one single though
Holy God, of Christ, or of eternity, obtained
;hris- mission! Yet it is not specified, as on
that the decided characteristics OF those
Will are unfit for heaven, and exposed to
f the less woe, that God is not IN all I
le in thoughtsp And it is not expresSIy
ity, of by the authority of Him who scare
annot the heart--that the wicked shall be
pie of ed into hell, and all the nations (aHd tt
pour. fore all the Individually that forget G
r, the Oh, what must be the accumulation c
lights guilt contracted, if, with respect to Sir
he in thought alone a charge can be substat
ed, of nature sufficiently henous II
ligent sight of God to require sentence OF
nal Punishment from his presence
S give Keeping them in view this ADM
qually sketch of the Christian temper draw
lent to the hand of master, under the gulC
e the of direc: inspiration, it shall be my
is sus- to set before you
flight. FIRST, The Motives which shou
in the fectually urge US to the cultivation Of
nee, it Temper /; and
,,laos cnoonnrv The hest Methods of