proposing to himself in the sanctuary of conscience, and by virtue of which he tramples on the scorpion of religious delusion, and ascends, with the soaring eagle, to the high mountain of religious purity, wisdom, and peace.
You see then, my good Friend, the elevated ground to which we have been conducted by the voluntary and involuntary motions of the body, and how the ALMIGHTY has thus written on our corporeal frame those sacred lessons of His own Divine love and wisdom, by which He is intent to raise us every moment nearer to Himself and His eternal kingdom. You perceive, I say, that though soul and body are perfectly distinct from each other, yet they stand connected in a common relationship to their DIVINE ORIGIN, bearing the striking marks and characters of DIVINE AGENCY and ORDER; and thus both of them speaking the same language, enforcing the same duties, and pointing to the same end of all creation, as expressed in the angelic song, “Glory to GOD in the highest, and on earth peace, good will towards men,” [Luke ii. 14.].
May the analogy then, which is thus discoverable as existing between body and mind, and especially between the voluntary and involuntary motions of each, lead us to profit by the admirable wisdom which it continually presents to our view, and enforces on our
