the best we can do in it, is to make the fame ufe of this part of our character, which wife men do of other bad propenfities-when they find they cannot conquer them, they endeavour, at leaft, to divert them into good channels.

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If therefore we must be a folicitous race of felf-tormentors, let us drop the common objects which make us fo,-and for God's fake be folicitous only to live well.

SERMON XXII. P. 145.

ROOTED OPINION NOT EASILY

ERADICATED.

HOW difficult you will find it to convince a miferly heart, that any thing is good which is not profitable? or a libertine one, that any thing is bad, which is pleasant?

SERMON XXIII. PAGE, 163.

DE AT H.

THERE are many inftances of men, who have

received the news of death with the greatest ease of mind, and even entertained the

thoughts

thoughts of it with fmiles upon their countenances, and this, either from ftrength of fpirits and the natural cheerfulness of their temper,or that they knew the world, and cared not for it-or expected a better-yet thousands of good men, with all the helps of philosophy, and against all the affurances of a well-fpent life, that the change must be to their account,-upon the approach of death have ftill lean'd towards this world, and wanted fpirits and refolution to bear the flock of a feparation from it for ever.

SERMON XVII. PAGE, 37.

SORROW.

WEET is the look of forrow for an offence,

SWEET

in a heart determined never to commit it more!-upon that alter only could I offer up

my wrongs.

SERMON XVIII. P. 64.

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SIMPLICITY

SIMPLICITY.

SIMPLICITY is the great friend to Nature,

and if I would be proud of any thing in this filly world, it fhould be of this honeft alliance. SERMON XXIV. P. 187.

COVETOUSNESS.

To know truly what it is, we must know what mafters it ferves;-they are many, and of various cafts and humours,—and each one lends it fomething of its own complexional tint and character.

This, I fuppofe, may be the cause that there is a greater and more whimsical mystery in the love of money, than in the darkest and most nonfenfical problem that ever was pored on.

Even at the best, and when the passion seems to feek fomething more than its own amusement, -there

there is little-very little, I fear, to be faid for its humanity.-It may be a sport to the Mifer, but confider,-it must be death and deftruction to others.The moment this fordid humour begins to govern-farewell all honeft and natural affection! farewell, all he owes to parents, to children, to friends!-how faft the obligations vanish! fee he is now ftripped of all feelings whatever:-the fhrill cry of juftice-and the low lamentation of humble diftrefs, are notes equally beyond his compass.

Eternal God! fee!-he paffes by one whom thou haft juft bruifed, without one penfive reflection: he enters the cabin of the widow whofe husband and child thou haft taken to thyself,exacts his bond, without a figh!-Heaven! if I am to be be tempted,-let it be by glory,by ambition,-by fome generous and manly vice: if I muft fall, let it be by fome paffion which thou haft planted in my nature, which fhall not harden my heart, but leave me room at laft to retreat and come back to thee!

SERMON XIX. PACE, 81.

HUMILITY.

HUMILITY.

HE that is little in his own eyes, is little too

in his defires, and confequently moderate in his pursuit of them: like another man he may fail in his attempts and lose the point he aimed at, but that is all,-he lofes not himself,-he lofes not his happiness and peace of mind with it, even the contentions of the humble man are mild and placid.-Blessed character! when fuch a one is thrust back, who does not pity him ? -when he falls, who would not ftretch out a hand to raise him up?

SERMON XXV. P. 193

PATIENCE AND CONTENTMENT.

PATIENCE and Contentment,—which like the

treasure hid in the field for which a man fold all he had to purchase-is of that price that it cannot be had at too great a purchafe, fince without it, the best condition in life cannot make

us