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One honeft tear fhed in private over the unfortunate, is worth it all..

SERMON XVII. P. 47.

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TE are perpetually in fuch engagements and fituations, that 'tis our duties to fpeak what our opinions are-but God forbid that this ever fhould be done but from its beft motive-The fenfe of what is due to virtue, governed by defcretion 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 would leave but a tatter'd world of it.

SERMON XVII. P. 50.

DEFAMATION.

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OES humanity clothe and educate the unknown orphan ?-Poverty thou hast no genealogies :-See! is he not the father of the child? Thus do we rob heroes of the best part of their glory-their virtue. Take away the motive of the act, you take away all that is worth having in it ;-wreft it to ungenerous ends, you load the virtuous in an who did it with infamy :-undo it all-I befeech you, give him back his honour,reftore the jewel you have taken from him-replace him in the eye of the world

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CIBID. PL 52.

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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 stands not fo watchful a centinel over their forgiveness, as it does in the breafts of the fierce and froward; we should all of us, I believe, be more forgiving than we are, would the world but give us leave; but it is apt

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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 cases without diftination, that it requires all the firmness of the most settled humanity to bear up against it. SERMON XVIII. p. 61.

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RELIGION.

HERE are no principles but thofe of religion to be depended on in cafes of real diftrefs, and that thefe are able to encounter the worst emergencies; and to bear us up under all the changes and chances to which our life is fubje&

SERMON. XV. P. I2.

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NREAT is the power of eloquence; but never is it fo great as when it pleads along with nature, and the culprit is a child strayed from his duty, and returned to it again with tears. .f.

SERMON XX. P. IOL.

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GENEROSITY.

ENEROSITY forrows as much for the overmatched, as Pify herfelf does.

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SOCIETY.

OTWITHSTANDING all we meet with in books, in many of which, no doubt, there are a good many handfome things faid upon the fweets of retirement, &c. yet ftill " it it "it "not good for man to be alone" nor can all which the cold-hearted pedant fluns our ears with upon the subject, 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 pureft of our spirits, fuffer molt under the deftitutione

Let the torpid Monk feek heaven comfortless and alone God fpeed him! For my own part, I fear, I should never fo find the way let, me be wife and religious but let me be Man: wherever thy providence places me, or

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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 fweet the flowers of the field! How delicious are these fruits!

SERMON XVIII. P. 60.

DISSATISFACTION.

PITY the men whofe natural pleasures are, burdens, and who fly from joy (as these, fplenetic and morofe fouls do), as if it was really an evil in itself.

SERM. XXII. P. 145.

SORROW AND HEAVINESS OF HEART.

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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 evils as they occafion forrow;take that outthe rest is fancy, and dwelleth only in the head of man.

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