1841 William Miller Evidence from Scripture & History - A2Z.org

covered his feet, and with twain he did fl And one
cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, hogis the Lord
of hosts ; the whole earth is full of hie lory." Ezekiel
also saw the same living creatures thatgeaLab calls useraphima,"
and John LLfour beasts" Ezekiel calls them
" cherubim" See Ezel~ i. and x. chapter& John Bays,
Rev. iv. 8, And the four beasts had each of them six
wings about hi" tAe same as Isaiah's ueeraphims.n.
These wings are the graces of the Spirit, as is strongly
implied b hekiel i. 12, U And they went eve one
8traight Jrward; whither the spirit was to .go, thy
went ; and they turned not when they wedn With
two they covered their face 77--humility and repentance;
with two they covered their feetn--that ig they walked
by two of the graces, faith and patience, fiaith in God
and patient in tribulation ; LG and with two they did fly
hope and love. They L'mount up with wings as eagles ;
they shd run and not be weary, walk and not faint,"
says the prophet lsaiah, xl. 31. And again John anye,
they were "full of eyea before and behind, and they
were full of eyes within;" showing that they would
have just views of sin, of God, and his word, aad of
themselves: they could look b k and see their sins,
and the pit from which they had been delivered, and
with grahtude remember their Redeemer. They could
with eyes of faith look forward and believe in the
promises of God, and have a view of the glory that
shall be revealed at his second coming. With eyea
within, they could look into their own hearts, and sce the
re- corruwon and hidden depravity that lie
in every corner of the sod, and by this meam
:%the old man with his deeda They are repreeenb
ed by John as being praying souls, "and golden vials
full of odors, which are the prayers of saints." Every
Dne had these vials, says John. HOW then, I ask, can
the prayerlw man or woman think to join thie celestial
2 6L Having every one of them harps ;" &owing
E% of them would hawe-new bearb, be born of God;
so they would be enabled to sing in the New Jedem
etate the new so
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