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Rh In regard to the main subject of this treatise, therefore, these conclusions follow:

1. That all order and health flow in from heaven, and all disease and disorder from hell.

2. That while all things conspire to keep man in order and health, the action of his own mind and his consequent spiritual associations both general and particular, will, so far as he is in evil and falsity constantly operate to disturb that order and induce disease into the body.

3. That since man is connected with the whole spiritual world, both heaven and hell; by his spiritual and natural human form and its hereditary and actual modifications, his diseases are no certain index of his particular spiritual character. But so far as he is in the endeavour to live spiritually according to the laws of divine order he is in internal correspondence with heaven, and all things conspire to the removal of disease so far as evils are removed.

The laws of divine order are the laws of Divine Providence, which is to be conceived of in accordance with the one grand revelation in all the foregoing; namely, that the Lord operates in human life, and through the