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Rh has occasionally flashed on your understanding, you have still never accustomed yourself to reflect, that the human body, in the above instance, is an exact transcript and image of its parent mind, and especially of a regenerate mind, or one which is restored to the order of Heaven, since such a mind, alike with its body, is a compound of a variety of members, each of which members is, in its turn, also a compound, consisting of an indefinite variety of particulars. Allow me, then, to call your attention for a moment to this figurative character of your body, as to a subject of importance, which, perhaps, hath not heretofore been sufficiently considered, and which yet merits all consideration.

Every one knows, that what is commonly called the mind of man is a compound, consisting of will and understanding, both which principles are necessary to constitute mind, since each, separate from the other, is a mere nonentity. For the will, it is generally allowed, is the seat of man’s love, as understanding is the seat of his thought; and as love cannot exist without thought, or thought without love, in like manner, and for the same reason, will cannot exist without understanding, or understanding without will. But who cannot see, that the will or love of man is a complex of loves, which are as numberless as the