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Rh of the position above stated, that the mind, as well as the body, has its voluntary and involuntary motions.

But let us stop here for a moment, to look around us from the eminence to which this truth has elevated us, and try whether we cannot discover from it some practical uses to be deduced from this condition of our existence, as being the subjects of affections and thoughts, which are at once in agreement with our will, and in opposition to it.

And first—How plainly do we discern, in this singular circumstance of our situation here below, a striking and strong corroboration of the testimony of revelation respecting the two kingdoms, one of good, and the other of evil, in the midst and under the influence of which we are at present placed! For the interesting information made known to us in the is manifestly to this effect, viz. that there is a heaven, and also a hell; and that the inhabitants of both these kingdoms have alike access to man,—the inhabitants of the former being appointed of the as ministering spirits, ['Heb. i. 14.], and encamping angels, ['Psalm xxxiv. 7.], to minister to those who shall he heirs of salvation, by cherishing in them all heavenly affections and thoughts; whilst the inhabitants of the latter are permitted, by the same high