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Rh by false persuasions, and is thus concealed so as not to appear evil.

113. As thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee; thy reward shall return upon thine own head, (Obad. v. 15,) is the awful law of retaliation, operative in the eternal world, by which it is ordained that all evil, meditated against and done to another, shall ultimately recoil on the head of its contriver and perpetrator.—Most awful consideration! It is however most consolatory to know, that according to the same law, whatsoever good is done or intended to another, from a pure love, ultimately returns, in full measure, into the bosom of him who intended it.

114. Evil appears to be separable from man to an indefinite degree, and in proportion to the distance of its removal is the nearness of its opposite, good; in other words, heaven approaches as hell recedes. Evil is first separated by noting and abhorring it as sin against God, and the distance of its removal is increased by every repeated act of combat against it, till at length it is removed to the degree, expressed in these words of the Eternal Truth, As far as the east is from the west, so far hath He set our transgressions from us. (Psalm ciii. 12.)

115. Jesus Christ says, The Son of Man is come to seek and to save that which was lost, (Luke xix. 10,) in which words, it is evident, a distinction is made between seeking and saving; the former term having