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Rh eternal life and salvation. Indeed, I should hardly have thought the acts of bodily walking and standing deserving your notice, unless those acts also were found worthy of being recorded in the above, as significant acts, and thus as connected with man’s spiritual and eternal interests.

Allow me then to call to your recollection a few passages in the Sacred Volume of Revelation, from which it will be manifest, not only that the acts of walking, of standing, and of sitting are applied to the mind, but also in what sense they are applied; in other words, what we are to understand by spiritual walking, spiritual standing, and spiritual sitting.

And here it is not a little remarkable, that in the very first verse of the first Psalm, mention is made of all the above acts in connection with each other; for to this purpose it is written, “Blessed is the man that not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor  in the way of sinners, nor  in the seat of the scornful;” from which words it must be evident to every intelligent reader, that both walking, standing, and sitting are predicated of the mind, and not of the body; and though it may not perhaps be easy to discover, at first reading, what is involved in each particular act, as applied to the mind, yet a little serious thought and reflection may lead to this