Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

100 The Difficulties of Re-union.
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of Thrice Holy
tion? Or that the emerald rainbow round
is uttered for mutual
about the Throne, and the sea of
glass before
it, and the golden altar, and the
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pearly
are set in Heaven for show? That
gates,"
the
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worship" of Heaven,
be attractive
?
to
the glory
of GOD, may
"not offered for
the Angels? Or ? if it be supposed that there
is so much difference between heavenly and
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earthly worship,
that the ALMIGHTY Creator
of all
delights
in beauty in the one part
of His Creation, and not in another, in the
offerings of his creatures there,
but not here.
What do thev think of what GOD Himself
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ordered about His worship under a lower
covenant than this ? Do thev imagine that
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Bezaleel,
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filled with the Spirit of GOD, in
wisdom, and in understanding, and in know
ledge, and in all manner of workmanship,"
that he, to use a builder s term, that he
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scamped his work," when he came to the
Holv of Holies, because 110 one but the Iliffh
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Priest was to see it ? But I do not wish now
to enter into these questions further than to
show how elementary is the teaching needed by
our more educated classes to bring them up
to a condition in which thev would be at all
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capable of receiving the true faith of Catholic
mysteries, and of appreciating, or rather of
enduring, Catholic worship. And yet, I say