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 perceive their qualities respectively, whence they originate and whither they tend. As the hairs of the head are named in Scripture to signify the ultimate terminations of love and wisdom; and as these are powerful and strong in conquering those false persuasions and thoughts which are the enemies of man's regeneration, trossing his path and opposing him in his way to heaven: so we may see the reason why Samson's strength lay in his hair, and that, when cut off, his strength departed. (Judges xvi. 17.) All spiritual strength departs when affection and thought do not tend to, or are not seen in, the activities of life; for in the outward life of the Christian, all his internal struggles terminate, and there it is that his spiritual battles are to be fought and the victory won. The Lord is described in Rev. i. 14, as to the hairs of his head being white as snow, to instruct us that the divine love and wisdom of God in the very ultimates of His Word, as well as in all their operations, are perfectly pure and spotless—white as snow.

It is indeed a blessing beyond all price, to know that God, by the universality of His providence, rules the world, and leads man in freedom through all the journey of life, and that for the purpose of doing him good in the end. It is also a blessing that man cannot see Divine Providence in its beginnings; for if he could, his self-love would interfere with its operations, and he would thus, by attempting to direct himself without the assistance of the Divine Hand, become his own destroyer; "Thou canst not see my face" (saith the Lord to Moses, when he desired to see Jehovah's glory); "for there shall no man see Me and live." (Exod. xxxiii. 20.) "I will make all my goodness

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