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ON THE EXTERNAL FORM

on this most interesting and edifying subject, until you consider, and consider attentively, that all things in the universe, which are according to Divine order, have reference to two distinct principles, called the GOOD and the TRUE, and that nothing is given in heaven, and nothing in the world, which hath not reference to those two principles: the reason is, because both the GOOD and the TRUE proceed from the DIVINE BEING, who is the source of all things. It will be necessary to consider yet further, that the mind of every man, if it be in Divine order, is a compound of the above principles, since, as every one knows, it is a compound of will and understanding, and the will was created for the reception of the GOOD, as the understanding was created for the reception of the TRUE.

Keeping now in view the distinction of these two principles, the GOOD and the TRUE, which enter into the composition of every orderly and well-disposed mind, you will be enabled to see clearly, that the GREAT SAVIOUR had manifest reference to these principles, when he delivered the edifying precept, “Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth,” and also when He declared that, at His second coming, He would set the sheep on His right hand, and the goats on the left. You will discover too yet further, that by the right hand, in both the above passages,