Frances cried, and, sobbing, exclaimed, "I do not know what it means?"

"What can it mean, my dear Frances, but parallel with those, 'If thyright eye offend thee, pluck it out if thy right arm offend thee,cut it off. It is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed,than, having two arms or two feet, to be cast into everlastingfire,' Matt. xvvi. 29, 30. ii. 8, 9. It means that spirit which willsacrifice the lust of the heart, and deny itself, though it should bea present mortification. The _throat_ of an inordinate ordiseased appetite is to be cut, and its carnal desires crucified."

"Was it not something of this kind that Isaac fell into when he sentEsau to hunt venison, and make him savory meat, such as his soulloved? Gen. xxvii. 4."