DISCOURSEH. 59,7 the same time it was able by an act of its will to send out or with- hold every sun-beam as it pleased, and thereby to give light and darkness, life and death in a sovereign manner to all the animal inhabitants of this our earth, or even of all the planetary worlds. Such may be the " glorified human soul of our blessed Redeem-. er united to his glorified body ;" and perhapshis knowledge and his power may be as extensive as this similitude represents ; especially when we consider this soul and body as personally uni- ted to the divine nature, and as one with God. Now this noble thought may be supported by such consider- ations as these: As our souls are conscious of the light, shape, motions, &c. of such distant bodies as the planet;Saturn or the fixed stars, because our eyes receive rays from thence ; so may not a human soul united to a body as easily be supposed to have aconsciousness of any thing wheresoever it can send out rays or emit either fluids or atoms from its ownbody ? May not the sun,' for instance, if a soul were united to it, become thereby so ;in rious a complex being, as to - send out every ray with knowledge, and have a consciousness of every thing wheresoever it sends its' direct or reflected rays? And may not the human soul of our Lord Jesus Christ have a consciousness of every thing whereso- ever it can send direct or reflected rays from his own shining and glorified body. To add yet to the wonder, we may suppose, that these rays may be subtle as magnetic beams which penetrate brass and stone as easily as light dothglass; and at the same time they may. be as swift as light, which reaches the most amazing distance o several millions of miles in a minute. By this means, since the light of the sun pervades all secret chambers in our hemisphere at once, and fills all places with direct and reflected beams, if consciousness belonged to all those beams, what a sort of omnis- cient being would the sun be? I mean omniscient in its own sphere. And why may not the human soul and body of our glo- rifledSaviour be thus furnished with suchan amazing extent of knowledge and power, and yet not be truly infinite ? Let us dwell a little longer upon these delightful contempla- lions. If a soul had but a full knowledge and command of all the atoms of one solid foot of matter, which according to modern philosophy is infinitely divisible, what strange and astonishing influences would it have over this world of oùrs? What conru- sions might it raise in distant nations, sending pestilential streams into a thousand bodies, and destroying armies at once? And it might scatter benign or healing and vital influences to as large a circumference. If our blessed Lord in the days of his hutnilia- lion could send " virtue out of him to heal a poor diseased wo- man who touched the hem of his garment" with a finger, who knows what healing atoms or what killing influences he may send
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