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 the state of the whole man. The subject mind, having lost both its mastery and its independence, waits humbly on the condition and- will of the body, and expects from it all its pleasures or its pains. Bat such was not the original order. It was intended that the nobler soul should have and keep the body in subjection; and, so holding it in subjection, should keep it at the same time in its proper condition. Such was the case at the beginning; and then both were healthful and both at peace.

But with sin came disease and consequent suffering; for sin and pain necessarily go together, as obedience and peace go together. For, as heretofore shown, sin or evil is moral disorder, a derangement of the faculties and affections of the mind; and as the body was created the servant and instrument of the mind, and so was placed in such relation to the mind as to answer to all its states, consequently disorder in the mind produced disorder in the body, as cause produces effect. Thus sin produced disease. The manner in which this effect was brought about, has been thus explained by a profound writer—"Diseases correspond to the lusts and passions of the mind, in which also they have their origin. For the origins of diseases, in general, are intemperance, luxuries of various kinds, pleasures merely corporeal, also envyings, hatreds, revenges, lasciviousness, and, the like; which things destroy man's interiors, and when these are destroyed, the exteriors also suffer, and draw man into disease and, thus to death.—Sin is all that which is contrary to Divine order. Hence it shuts up the finest and quite invisible vessels, of which the next larger vessels, also invisible, are composed (for the most minute and invisible vessels extend even to