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Rh reply, they are all such objects as are presented to your view in the volume of, viz. the being and attributes of the ; His manifestation in the flesh; His connection with the hunian race, not only as a and perpetual, but as a  and perpetual ; His everlasting kingdom also, with its nearness to man, both as a present and future possession.

But you will tell me, perhaps, that it is impossible for you to attain to a belief in the existence, the nearness, and important reality of such invisible and eternal objects, as full and as convincing as that which you enjoy respecting visible and temporal objects; and that, consequently, the evidence resulting from the testimony of your bodily eye is more to be depended on than that which results from the testimony of your intellectual eye.

I am well aware, that an impression of this sort prevails in many minds, but let me entreat you, my dear Sir, to consider whether it be a just impression. For why should not the objects of intellectual sight be regarded as of, at least, equal reality with those of bodily sight? You say that the sun of this world has a real existence, because you see it with your bodily eye, and you would laugh at any one who should