CONCLUSION. 519 will magnify the misery of what he is -a reflection which will accompany and torment the inextinguishable memory through a miserable eternity. Whether in the instance of the rich man, who "in hell lift up his eyes, being in torment," we might dare believe that some remains of human tenderness for his relatives might survive in a ruined soul; or, whether his anguish was made more bitter, from the reflection, that he had been their corrupter, and therefore dreaded that their punishment might hereafter aggravate his own, we pretend not to say. In any event, it offers a lesson pregnant with instruction. It ad- monishes every impenitent offender, of the dreadful addition that may be made to his own misery, by that corrupt ex- ample which has ruined others. And it will be the consummation of his calamity that he can see nothing but justice in his condemnation. For it is worth observ- ing, that the man in the parable brings no accusation against the equity of his
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