sinister, dark, rough, incongruous, heterogeneous, in the body, then is all health and harmony, and every object bright. All shines in light the most beauteous; all is fresh and fair. The light is sufficient for all things, only let thine eye be single. See what is, without wishing to see it otherwise than it is, or to see what is not.

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"Some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up; some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth, and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth; and when the sun was up they were scorched and because they had not root they withered away: and some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprung up and choaked them; but other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundred fold, some sixty fold, some thirty fold." Matt. xiii. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.

There are many men, many countenances, in whom nothing can be planted, each fowl devours the seed; or they are hard like stone, with little earth (or flesh) have habits which stifle all that is good. There are others that have good bones, good flesh, with a happy proportion of each, and no stifling habits.

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"For whosoever hath to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance; but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath." Matt. xiii. 12.—True again of the good and bad countenance. He who is faithful to the propensities of nature, he hath, he enjoys, he will manifestly be ennobled. The bad will lose even the good traits he hath received.

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"Take heed that you despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, that in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.” Matt. xviii. 10. Probably the angels see the countenance of the Father in the countenance of the children.

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"For there are some eunuchs which were so born from their mothers womb, and there are some eunuchs which were made eunuchs of men, and there be eunuchs which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake." Matt. xix. 12. What learned professor can class better? There are not only eunuchs but strong, temperate, wise, and pleasing men, so born from their mother's womb. There are others who so have made themselves.

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"If any man have ears to hear let him hear. Do ye not perceive that whatever thing from without entereth into the man it cannot defile him, because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats? And he said, that which cometh out of the man that defileth the man." Mark vii. 16, 18, 19, 20.-Once more physiognomonically true. Not external accidents, not spots which may be washed away, not wounds which may be healed, not even scars which remain, will defile the countenance in the eye of the physiognomist: neither can paint beautify it to him, for "though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap." (Jerem. ii. 22) yet wilt thou be in his eyes a monster, if out of the heart proceed into the countenance "evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies." (Matt. xv. 19.) There is the pharisee of physiognomy as well as of religion, and, probably, they are both the same. Let me continually repeat, "Cleanse first that which is within, that the outside may be clean also." Matt. xxiii. 25.

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mies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme, but he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost, hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation.-Because they said "he hath an unclean spirit." Mark iii. 28, 29, 30.-Whoever mistakes a man, feels not the innocence of his countenance, his goodness, fidelity, benevolence, and peaceful desires, may be pardoned. Such were the sins of those who blasphemed the Son of Man, who took offence at the humanity of the Messiah. But to feel these perfections, this spirit, in any man, and yet to blaspheme, is unpardonable.

To blaspheme the spirit of a thing as far as it is known and felt is unpardonable; that is to say, it shews a person naturally incorrigible. How much more to blaspheme the spirit of a benevolent man; and yet how much more the spirit of Christ, so far as he was known, or felt, in his countenance, or his actions? It is, certainly, an offence against God, treason against divine majesty, to insult a countenance replete with unction and mind. It is a very general warning of the spirit of truth, "Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm." Psalm cv. 15.

III. PAUL.

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"A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump." Galat. v. 9.-A little vice often deforms the whole countenance. One single false trait makes the whole a caricature.

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"The foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men, after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called; but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; that no flesh should glory in his presence." 1 Cor. i. 25, 26, 27, 29.

Not the greatness of Eliab or of Saul was pleasing to God, but he chose the beautiful David, and the most rejected of all was the fairest of the children of men. How many unobserved, despised, oppressed, countenances have traces of their divine election! Numbers whom no man accounts beautiful still are so accounted in the eyes of heaven. Not one of the favourites of God, however deformed the body may be, that has not