which you may be enabled to discern clearly (provided you acknowledge the Divine Testimony of the WORD OF GOD), not only the reality of the existence of a SPIRITUAL SUN, called the SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, but also the existence of an eternal world, with all its variety of spiritual inhabitants and objects.[1]
Allow me now to call your attention to another spiritual and eternal use of the same bodily organ.
But here I must beg leave to address you as a man, who possesses, not only a bodily eye for the purpose of admitting into your mind all the grand objects of outward nature, but also an intellectual eye, capable of viewing those objects in the interior light of truth; and thus of collecting from them all that sublime and heavenly wisdom which they are intended to convey. Too many, alas! in this respect, may be said to have only one eye, viz. the eye of the body, whilst they either put out, or what is the same thing, never open the intellectual eye,—thus drawing down upon themselves
- ↑ Concerning this expression, THE SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, it may, perhaps, be necessary to suggest a caution to the Reader, lest he should be led to suppose, that the GREAT REDEEMER, to Whom the expression is manifestly applied by the prophet, is to be regarded as a SUN; whereas the truth is, that the GREAT REDEEMER, Whose high and holy name is JESUS CHRIST, is a DIVINE MAN, and to be regarded therefore as a DIVINE MAN, whilst the holy influence of His love and wisdom is figured and marked as a SUN, to denote that All of heavenly love and wisdom is from him and is His.
