But here it may be made to draw equally in the yoke of duty nay, even to give wings to the mind, which it presseth down, and overwhelms on many other occasions. We usually blame the body to a high degree, as the great clog and hindrance of the soul. And this natural sympathy shows itself nowhere more remarkably than in acts of devotion. There is so close a connection between the mind and its organs, that they act, as it were, by consent and the motions of the one do commonly, and in some degree, pass into the other. A HELP AND ASSISTANCE TOWARDS PROMOTING THE SPIRITUAL WORSHIP OF OUR SOULS. Now, a reward supposeth a work it is meet and right, therefore, that we should worship and glorify God in this life with the body as well as the soul, if so be we expect that God should glorify "both our bodies and souls in another." We all look for the glorification, not only of our souls, but bodies, in the life to come. A PART OF THAT NATURAL HOMAGE WHICH THE WHOLE MAN, SOUL AND BODY, OWES TO GOD, UPON THE ACCOUNT OF HIS CREATION AND PRESERVATION OF US, AND HIS SOVEREIGN DOMINION OVER US. O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.…Įxternal adoration may be considered as.
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