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12 and thus that it is a standing and striking memorial, existing in all ages, and presented to the view of all people, that the human body bears in it a Divine impression, which perpetually exhibits the undeniable marks and characters of Divine skill, contrivance, and workmanship.

But to discover the whole of the Divine skill and contrivance, exhibited in this memorable instance, it will be necessary for you to elevate your intellectual faculty to a view of the mystery involved in the terms right and left, as applied to the body, until you discern that they apply also to the mind, as well as to the body; and are thus expressive of the distinct spiritual principles, which enter into the composition of mind.

You are surprised, perhaps, to hear that the mind hath its right and left, and that thus there is every reason to believe, that the right and left sides of the body, with their several organs and members, originate in a mental distinction, and owe their birth to it: but your surprise will cease, whensoever you are at the pains to consider the words of the, where He saith to His disciples, in speaking of doing alms, “Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth,” [Matt. vi. 3.]; and again, where He describes the awful separation of the sheep from the