Man, moral and physical, or, The influence of health and disease on religious experience / by the Rev. Joseph H. Jones.

  • Jones, J. H. (Joseph Huntington), 1797-1868.
Date:
1861
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    as if they weife well understood, yet there is scarcely a term which we employ which is not rather a symbol of what wc do not know, than an exponent of what we do. The mystery of the Trinity is not more inexplicable than is the connection that subsists between the body and the soul of man. The most that we know of either, is derived from the results which flow from such an union. As we infer the being and co-operation of the three persons in the (godhead, from the nature and the benefits of redemption, by which this triune existence is implied, so we become assured that we have a spirit as well as a body, from their acts or motions, which we feel. We know nothing of the substance of which cither is composed, nor of the mode in which the two are linked together. The attempts of science to reach and explain these ultimate facts, have not amounted to even an approximation. What- ever has been written concerning the locality of the soul, the time of its entrance into the body, the mode by which it acts upon or governs it, and the avenue through which it