we should be enabled to comprehend what the Scripture teaches where it is written, “He filleth the hungry soul with goodness;” [Psalm cvii. 9.]; and again, “Man did eat angels’ food: He sent them meat to the full,” [Psalm lxxviii. 25.]. Thus, were this more remote end of eating and drinking- attended to, both soul and body would be nourished at one and the same time; and the feast of the latter—instead of immersing the former in all the filth and uncleanness of disorderly appetites, and thus separating it from GOD and heaven, as is too frequently the case—would then tend to elevate it to the purities of true bliss, by leading it every day to sing a new song of gratitude, praise, and thanksgiving to the DIVINE GIVER OF ALL GOOD.
But there is yet another end of bodily eating and drinking, which I have called the ultimate end, though perhaps it ought more properly to be called the first and principal end, and which every sincere Christian, like yourself, will immediately and gladly acknowledge. For it is the high privilege and bliss of such a Christian to believe in the Divinity of the GREAT SAVIOUR, and that by virtue of the union in Him, of FATHER and SON, or of DIVINITY and HUMANITY, He is the ONLY GOD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH; or, as He stiles Himself, “The ALPHA and OMEGA, the BEGINNING and the ENDING, WHICH IS, and WHICH WAS, and
