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CHAP. X.

The equal dealings of providence demon­strated with regard to the happy and the miserable here below. That from the nature of pleasure and pain, the wretch­ed must be repaid the balance of their sufferings in the life hereafter.

My friends, my children, and fellow sufferers, when I reflect on the di­stribution of good and evil here below, I find that much has been given man to en­joy, yet still more to suffer. Though we should examine the whole world, we shall not find one man so happy as to have no­thing left to wish for; but we daily see thousands who by suicide shew us theyhave