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34 your testimony. But why then will you not say that another sun exists, with the same reality, called, which is presented to the view of your intellectual eye in the bright pages of the ? [See Malachi, iv. 2.]. There can be no just reason assigned for a want of evidence in the latter case, but what is grounded in a disbelief or doubt respecting the Divine testimony of the. Being persuaded, however, that no such disbelief or doubt has any place in your mind, I am perfectly satisfied that, whensoever you will give yourself a moment’s time to reflect on the subject, you will then discern clearly, that the, presented in that Holy Book to your intellectual eye, demands as full a belief as to His existence and wonderful properties, as the sun of this world which is presented every day to your bodily eye. And if the exists, we are then compelled to allow that there must be a world also, called the eternal world, with all its various inhabitants and objects, on which that  may exert its blessed influences. For what is a sun without a world to shine upon? And what is a world without inhabitants and objects?

You see then, my good friend, from the above statement, that one grand spiritual and eternal use of the bodily eye is to form an intellectual eye, by virtue of