 is expressive of the Sense and the Sound thereof. Whatever is within you, whatever is without you, cries aloud for a Saviour. For Sin hath been as the
Mezentius,
of whom you read in
Virgil,
who bound the Bodies of the Dead to the Persons of the Living. Thus it is that the Sin of fallen Angels, and of fallen Man, hath bound Change and Corruption, Distemperature and Death, to the Elements, to the Vegetables, to Animals, and even to the immortal Image of God himself in the Humanity; so that all Things cry out, with the Apostle Saint
Paul, who shall deliver me from the Body of this Death?
So that all Things cry out, with the Apostle Saint
Peter, save Lord, or I perish!
These are inevitable Truths, my
Harry,
which all Men, at some time, must feel throughout their Existence, whether they read them or not. And he alone who never experienced nor ever shall experience Frailty, Error, or Sickness, Pain, Anguish, or Dissolution, is exempt from our Solar System of Salvation from Sin.
But, what Sort of a Saviour is it, for whom all Things cry so loudly? Is it a dry Moralist, a Legislator of bare and external Precepts, such as your Mole-Philosopher required our
Christ
to be? No, my Darling, no. The Influence and Existence of the Redeemer of Nature must, at least, be as extensive as Nature herself.
Things are defiled and corrupted throughout, they are distempered and devoted to Death from the inmost Essence of their Being; and nothing, under him, in whom they live and move and have their Being, can redeem, can restore them.
O Sir, exclaimed
Harry,
his Countenance brightening up, why could I not think of this? I should then have been able to foil my malignant Adversary, even at his own Weapons.
Our
Jesus
himself, continued Mr.
Fenton,
appeals to the Truth I have told you, where he says to the Sick of the Palsy, Son, be of good cheer, thy Sins are forgiven thee. But, when the Pharisees, thereupon, concluded that he blasphemed; he demonstrated his Influence in and over the Soul, by the sensible Evidence of his Operation and Influence in and over the Body. What reason ye in your Hearts? said
Jesus;
whether is it easier to say thy Sins be forgiven thee, or to say, rise up and walk? Then said he to the Sick of the Palsy, arise and take up thy Couch, and go to thine House.
