thought grounded in affection is the only eye whereby God can be seen, and therefore that you can never see Him only so far as you think of Him with delight? Make it but a pleasure to yourself to think of God, and you will then always enjoy the sight of Him. This was what the Lord taught His disciples, when He said, The world seeth Me no more, but ye see Me. (John xiv. 19.) It is to be observed, however, that no man can think of God, but from God, that is, from the light of the knowledge of God manifested in His WORD and WORKS, just as no man can see an object with his external eye, but from or by some external light.
8. The connection and relationship established between the principal and instrumental appears to be a subject which involves the most astonishing depths of divine wisdom. To note only in the cases of the two bodily organs the eye and ear as instrumentals, and their principals the light and the modifications thereof, and the atmosphere with its modifications—what human mind is capable of comprehending all the wisdom manifested in their connection and relationship? But when we take a further view of the subject in regard to the human will, as a principal, and its instrumental, the body, or still further, in regard to the divine will and wisdom as principals, the human will and wisdom as instrumentals, we are lost in the immensity of such contemplations, and can only say, Great and marvellous are Thy works, Lord God Almighty. (Rev. xv. 3.)
9. I was also uncorrupt before Him, and eschewed
