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 with fatness, they have more than heart can wish." But real peace they can never know, for there is no peace to the wicked. While man is in a state of wickedness, persecution, and trial, and temptation, seem not to approach him. But when truth first awakes him to a sense of his evils, and convinces him that unless he repents he will perish—when under this knowledge he flees to the Lord, as the only source of help, and asks what he must do to be saved, and he is directed to the Word for help; then the evils and falses, the enemies that dwell within him, take alarm; they see that their reign draws to a close, and they try every artful means that sin can devise, to expel the truth, and keep the man still in the gall of bitterness. Here is the cause of persecution, and man is blessed when he undergoes it, because he certainly has become possessed of truth in some small degree, or he would not be persecuted. If he suffer the truth to cast out his evils, to fight against and overcome his errors, and look for help to him who is the very eternal truth itself, his enemies will eventually be overcome; and then he will rejoice and be glad, because his reward will be great in the heavens.

EPROSY, though not considered as a sin, was by the Jewish people frequently believed to be a visitation of God upon the descendants of those who