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40 this one, if properly attended to, may enable you to discover and guard against the rest. The instance, to which I allude, is the tendency of bodily vision (I may add also of intellectual vision), to exalt itself above every other vision; and thus, by elevating itself, its testimony and its delights, above the testimony and delights flowing from superior sources, to separate itself from the to Whom it owes its existence, and by this separation to plunge itself into all that blindness and wretchedness, pointed out by the great, where He says, “If thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall befall of darkness,” [Matt., xvi. 23.]. I am persuaded that I am not here speaking a language which you will deem strange and unintelligible, and therefore I am sure you will join me, on this occasion, in devout prayer to the, that both you and I, and every other human being, may be wise, in the exercise of all sight, whether bodily or intellectual, to secure that single eye, which renders the whole body full of light, [Matt., vi. 22.]. You will thus make it your constant earnest endeavour to conduct all your inferior organs of vision, with the higher principles of the fear and love of the most high, under the humble grateful acknowledgment that these organs are indebted to their for all their astonishing powers; and that those powers can