Wesley Corpus

the most inconsiderable, the most obvious parts of thy own frame. Who knoweth how thy soul is retained in life ( how the Most High God encloseth spirit in matter ? how he has so intimately united two substances of natures so totally different? how He who established it at first, still preserves that exact dependence of one on the other ? Who knows how the thought of his inmost soul immediately strikes the outward part of this earthly body, and how a consciousness in the mind of having done any thing amiss instantly spreads a blush over the cheek, and a prick of a needle on the hand immediately occasions a painful sensation .in the soul ? Man is a mystery to himself. That God does work wonderfully within him he knows, but the manner of the operation he cannot know ; it is too wonderful for his pre sent capacity. Whether he surveys his hand or heart or head, he sees innumerable footsteps of the Almighty ; but vainly does he attempt to trace them to their spring : " clouds and dark" ness are round about it." As unsuccessfully may man attempt to search out how this -infinite Being operates in the