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92 truth of his wisdom, which are the universals of heaven and the church, it follows, that the particulars depending upon them are also included and contained in it. That the Lord is present therein as to his Humanity, is plain from these express words of the institution, "This is my body; this is my blood:" and as his Divinity can no more be separated from his humanity, than the soul can from it's body, without the loss of life, we conclude, that the Lord is wholly and completely present in the holy supper, as well with respect to his Essential Divinity, as with respect to his Glorified Humanity: and wherever these are acknowledged and adored, there is heaven, there is the church, and there are the fruits of redemption.

IT has been already observed, art. 15 and 16, that as every thing in the universe, which exists according to divine order, bears a certain relation to good and truth, and to their union, so every thing in man has relation to his will and understanding, which are the receptacles of good and truth, or of love and wisdom, and to their conjunction in his mind and in his life. This conjunction of good and truth in man is compared in the Word to a marriage, and actually descends from a similar marriage of good and truth in heaven, which again in it's turn descends from the Lord himself, in whom the divine love and divine wisdom are essentially one. But the celestial marriage, while confined to a single individual mind, cannot be completed in all it's fulness and perfection; neither can it in such case be productive of so high and exquisite a sense of blessedness, as when it has