Sarah St. Jose 1032

With the love & best wither

of her affectionate father

LONDON:

GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, PRINTERS,

ST. JOHN'S SQUARE.

THE

HAPPINESS OF THE BLESSED

CONSIDERED AS TO THE

PARTICULARS OF THEIR STATE:

THEIR

RECOGNITION OF EACH OTHER IN THAT STATE;

AND

ITS DIFFERENCE OF DEGREES.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED, •

MUSINGS ON THE CHURCH AND HER SERVICES.

BY

RICHARD MANT, D.D.

LORD BISHOP OF DOWN AND CONNOR.

"What thou canst attain, which best may serve

To glorify the Maker, and infer

Thee also happier, shall not be withheld

Thy hearing.

beyond abstain

To ask, nor let thine own invention hope
Things not reveal'd, which the invisible King,
Only omniscient, hath suppress'd in night,
To none communicable in earth and heaven:
Enough is left besides to search or know."

MILTON, Par. Lost, vii. 115-125.

SIXTH EDITION.

LONDON:

FRANCIS & JOHN RIVINGTON,

ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD, AND WATERLOO PLACE.