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Confiderations on the nativity of St. John, and the circumstances that attended it.

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HE lights of the intellectual, like thofe of the natural fyftem, are not all of equal magnitude and luftre. In the church, as in the firmament, one ftar differeth from

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"another ftar in glory." Each contributeth

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tributeth its share towards diffipating the darkness with which we are furrounded; but fome, by their fuperior fplendor, immediately attract and dazzle the eye of the beholder. Confpicuous, above others, is the character of St. John the Baptift, that bright precurfor of the fun, and harbinger of the morning, who arofe to give notice of Meffiah's approach, and to prepare the world for his reception. Burning, and fhining, he ran his courfe, proclaiming to the inhabitants of the earth, "Repent, for the "kingdom of heaven is at hand ;" in other words, "The night is far fpent, the day is at hand; caft off therefore the works of darkness,

and put on the armour of light*,

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