human body, by rendering the body active, diligent, and obedient in the discharge of all the external duties of its station in society. Thus it is evidently the will and intention of the FATHER OF MERCIES to impart the blessing of health, both mental and bodily, to all his children, since all the prohibitions contained in His MOST HOLY WORD have their ground solely in their efficacy to remove those obstructions, both in the minds and bodies of mankind, which have a tendency to prevent the free and beneficent circulation of His ALL-HEALING MERCY and LOVINGKINDNESS.
From the above hints, now, on the nature and origin of bodily health, your own good sense will enable you to discover both the nature and origin of its opposite, viz. bodily sickness; and therefore I shall only beg leave to detain you a moment longer on the two interesting subjects, whilst I remark, that both in bodily health and bodily sickness are contained volumes of instruction, which demand the most serious scrutiny and attention of every intelligent being. For what enlightened eye cannot discern, that both bodily health and bodily sickness are effects in the ultimates of nature; which effects, like all other natural effects, have their causes, and that these causes are in a world above nature,—thus either in the heavenly world, from whence all blessings descend, or in the infernal world,
