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d 1 am strongly tempted to say more, in order to expose a little the wcakneaa of Uie Matenahsts; but 1 rd'rain, because it would ^ V«]^ THE CUIt«lf AS TO BODILr LACOHft. 1029 draw mc entirely from the proper province of our mmistry, which is to expound unto men the truths of rerelation. Having slicwn to you the parts of human nature tocoosist in bis animal strengthr his undersUnd- inpf of visible things, his reu«cntng of things iavi* sible, as of his own spirit, of other spirits, of God, and also of the ideal forms of things visible, where- of mathcmaties arc a noble monument; and his pufp feeling of things moral and spiritcal: observe now huw in jiaTadise, Hliort aft ik the account of it, there is & distinci province of employment for thorn all. First, for bis animal employment, God planted a gnrden ea«t%vard in Kden, out of the ground of which the Lord God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food ; the tree of Itfo aUo in the mkUi of the gar- den, and the tree of the knowledge^ of good stnd evil. In this w?U watered and beautiful garden^ whkh to the prophets was the emblem of every thing fertile and happy, he placed man to dress it and to keep it ; and gave him to cat of every tree thereof, save of the tree of the knowledge of good and eviL (Of tlie^ two treses we do not speculate at present: jierhaps we may in Aome future dit»cour«c.) To keep and dress this garden was the occupation of our tirst parents; the Al- mighty shewing thereby, that even to Ihcm exer- cise of the body was a pleasant and nccc&sary thing. This was Ibe activity appointed for his body^ the daily u^e of his animal life. Then for bis uiidenit^nding, there was the gorernment of all the cri?ature»:, tlie culture of all the plants, and that power over external nature which God ap- pointed to him^ and for which he gave him the 1030 THE CUIUC AS TO BODILT LABOUK. [-D^\ kuowledge necessary to bare aiul to bold tt. Bi with all this knowled^, wliorvof Go<l made pi by briiiginff the animaU to him to see what vrould call tbem, it Js said that he tiad no meet for bim : that b, there were pftrts of bit nature to wbich the keeping of the garden and the mastery of the world furnished no ineet or projie^H help, aiid niiiiUtered no delight. This was the s^pi^H ritual part, the affections and feeling of the soul, which found no kind tior kindred anvi-thcrc in creation of God. The existence of such a proveth, more than anything els^, the nature of m^ to be auperior 1o al