motive-The fenfe of what is due to virtue, governed by difcretion and the utmost fellowfeeling: were we to go on otherwise, beginning with the great broad cloak of hypocrify, and fo down through all its little trimmings and facings, tearing away without mercy all that look'd feemly, we should leave but a tatter'd world of it. SERMON XVII. P. 50 DEFAMATION, DOES humanity clothe and aducate the unknown orphan ?-Poverty thou haft no genealogies :-See! is he not the father of the child? Thus do we rob heroes of the best It is too late. IBID. P. 52 TYRANNY, TYRANNY. T is the mild and quiet half of the world, IT who are generally outraged and borne down by the other half of it: but in this they have the advantage; whatever be the fenfe of their wrongs, that pride ftands not fo watchful a centinel over their forgiveness, as it does in the breafts of the fierce and froward; we fhould all of us, I believe, be more forgiving than we are, would the world but give us leave; but it is apt to interpofe its ill-offices in remiffions, especially of this kind: the truth is, it has its laws, to which the heart is not always a party; and acts fo like an unfeeling engine in all cafes without diftinction, that it requires all the firmness of the moft fettled humanity to bear up against it. SERMON XVIII, P.ỐI. THE RELIGION. HERE are no principles but thofe of religion to be depended on in cafes of real diftrefs, and that these are able to encounter the worst emergencies; and to bear us up under all the changes and chances to which our life is fubject. SERMON XV. P. 12. ELOQUENCE ELOQUENCE GREAT is the power of eloquence; but never is it fo great as when it pleads along with nature, and the culprit is a child ftrayed from his duty, and returned to it again with tears. SERMON XX. P. IOI GENEROSITY. GENEROSITY forrows as much for the overmatched, as Pity herfelf does. IBID. SOCIETY. NOTWITHSTANDING all we meet with in books, in many of which, no doubt, there are a good many handsome things faid upon the 66 good for man to be alone:" nor can all which the cold-hearted pedant ftuns our ears with upon the fubject, ever give one answer of fatisfaction to the mind; in the midst of the loudeft vauntings of philofophy, Nature will have her yearnings for fociety and friendship; a good heart wants fome object to be kind to—and the best parts of our blood, and the purest of our spirits, fuffer moft under the deftitution. ; Let the torpid monk feek heaven comfortless and alone.- -God speed him! For my own part, I fear, I should never so find the way: let me be wife and religious but let me be Man: wherever thy Providence places me, or whatever be the road I take to get to theegive me fome companion in my journey, be it only to remark to, How our fhadows lengthen as the fun goes down;-to whom I may fay, How fresh is the face of Nature! How sweet the flowers of the field! How delicious are these fruits! SERMON XVIII. P. 60. DISSATISFACTION I DISSATISFACTION. PITY the men whose natural pleasures are burdens, and who fly from joy (as these splenetic and morofe fouls do), as if it was really an evil in itself. SERMON XXII. P. 145. SORROW AND HEAVINESS OF HEART. I1 F there is an evil in this world, 'tis forrow and heaviness of heart.-The lofs of goods, -of health,-of coronets and mitres, are only evil, as they occafion forrow;-take that outthe reft is fancy, and dwelleth only in the head of man. Poor unfortunate creature that he is! as if the causes of anguish in the heart were not enow -but he must fill up the measure with those of caprice; and not only walk in a vain fhadow, -but difquiet himself in vain too. We are a restless set of beings; and as we are likely to continue fo to the end of the world, —--` |