On the other hand, what blessed fruits might we not reasonably expect to abound in the mind and life of that sincere Christian, whose bodily senses were taught to submit themselves to the higher control and wise government of the spiritual senses and powers in which they originate, and thus to obey the Divine wisdom which saith, “Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve ME, till I have eaten and drunken, and afterwards thou shalt eat and drink!” [Luke xvii. 8.]. For, in such case, how quickly would the order of heaven and its GOD be restored in the mind and life of such a Christian! What abundant joy would result from the union of what is first with what is last, and of what is last with what is first! Even the bodily senses would be partakers of this joy, because they would experience the truth of the well-established maxim, “that a submitted sensation is, in all cases, more blessed than an unsubmitted one.” Their wanderings would thus be corrected, their disorders checked, their dangers prevented; whilst, like steady and faithful servants, “their eyes looked to the hands of their master and mistress.” In short, the fulness of peace and harmony would presently prevail both in the internal and external man, because the internal man would find his kingdom at once extended and
