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 neighbour, will give birth to cunning, artifice, dissimulation, hatred, revenge, cruelty, unmercifulness, pride, contempt of others, and even robbery and murder! Self-love, the source of all human sorrow, is insatiable! it grasps at everything, and would not hesitate to sacrifice a world, and all therein, if by so doing it could but gratify its ambitious desires! It thirsts for universal dominion amongst the kingdoms of the world; yet even this, if it could be obtained, would not satisfy; for such are its unlimited desires, that, if it were possible, it would hurl the Almighty from his throne, and place self thereon instead. The understanding of the man whose will is thus miserably constituted, is dark and depraved. Divine truth to him is nothing. The truths of revelation he treats with scorn; he tramples upon everything sacred and divine. He has no knowledge of God, heaven, or himself: his impure lusts and concupiscences burn, torment, and rankle in his bosom, destroying every holy, just, and honourable feeling, and plunging him deeper and deeper into misery and woe. Such a man as this has not the kingdom of heaven within; but he has its opposite, the kingdom of hell. His immortal spirit, grovelling, as it were, in the dust and filth of sensuality, is in Scripture called "the worm which dieth not," and his polluted affections and unholy desires, the fire that is not quenched. This man, when he departs, by bodily death, out of this world, will enter into the eternal world: but upon his entrance he cannot even see heaven! and the reason why he cannot see it is because there is nothing in him which is in agreement with the intense love and wisdom which dwell in the bosoms of the angels, and