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Rh how are our gratitude to the, and our knowledge of the duties which He requires of us, increased and extended by that light! For the, it is plain, could have supported bodily life by the agency of a single organ, and yet for that purpose He hath ordained the necessity of two organs. But what could be the ground of that necessity, except to point to a necessity of still higher importance, viz. the necessity of the existence and operation of two distinct principles for the support of spiritual life? In the two bodily organs then, called the heart and the lungs, which we find closely united, and in continual co-operation, in the centre of our own bosoms, we discover two heavenly monitors, ever inculcating the ground of this latter necessity, by teaching us, in their significant language, that love alone cannot save us and make us happy, without wisdom; will alone without understanding; charity alone without faith; goodness alone without truth; and still less wisdom, understanding, faith, and truth without love, will, charity, and goodness; and that, consequently, if we ever wish to be saved and made happy, we must make it the grand concern of our lives to join together in ourselves, in a bond of sacred marriage, the two heavenly principles of love and wisdom, of will and understanding, of charity and faith, and of goodness and truth.