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Y the eye of the Lord, is signified His divine Omniscience; and this divine attribute will be best represented to our limited capacities, by the glorious orb of day. It is as the eye of the Almighty, from its rays penetrating and pervading the universe of created things; and thus being not unlike its Creator in Omniscience and Omnipresence. The central sun, therefore, for which astronomers may search the natural heavens in vain, is the Lord Jesus Christ, "The Lord our God is a Sun."

If we trace up natural light to its proper centre and origin, we come to a globe of fire—for the sun itself is not light, but fire; and the light is nothing else but the manifestation of that fire. In like manner, if we trace up spiritual light to its proper centre and origin, we again come to a globe of fire, differing only from the former in its being spiritual and not natural; thus, as being the fire of divine love, not the fire of mere natural activity. This globe is the spiritual sun, in the centre of which is the Lord Jesus Christ, who, in Himself, is the purest love; and from whom perpetually proceeds the light of truth, which is the manifestation of that love. In all truth, then, we behold an image, more or less remote, of that great God and Saviour, proving to us both His existence and His qualities; with an evidence of demonstration equal, at least, to