2452. that they want to be rewarded for it, whatever their motive. So I was prompted to emphasize that the devil never intends anything else than to destroy everything of faith, and that the Lord bends all things toward good. Simply because good comes of it, they cannot be rewarded; and simply because devils try people severely in spiritual temptations and people are nevertheless regenerated there-by, the devils cannot receive a reward for that reason. So the good that people do with an evil purpose is not theirs. And further I was given to say that if they should do it from a good motive, they would not be rewarded because they deserve it, but from mercy, because the Lord performed it through them and disposed them to be such. So [they are rewarded] from Mercy for the sake of His Glory. 1748, 30 June.