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Rh “Daughter, be of good comfort, thy faith hath made thee whole, go in (into) peace.”

Thus have I endeavoured to prove, my dear Sir, that the bodily organ of the sense of touch, like the bodily organs of the other senses, is wonderful in its mechanism, and still more so in its uses, whether natural or spiritual, whether temporal or eternal; since by its natural and temporal operation it is instrumental in providing for the gratification and health of the body; and by its spiritual and eternal operation it is subservient to mental instruction, in consequence of pointing to the different degrees of mental touch with which it is in connection, and of which it is the basis, the offspring, and the representative figure.

But I have not yet done with my remarks on the bodily senses, inasmuch as I am eager to apprise you, that, notwithstanding the benefits both natural and spiritual, both temporal and eternal, which you are continually deriving from them, it is still possible, if you are not well upon your guard, that they may be converted into your most deadly foes; and into foes the more dangerous and seducing, because the foes of your own household. For such is the nature of every bodily sense, that every thing, whether salutary or mischievous, will depend on its state of submission to the interior