All our comforts proceed from the Father of goodness. The ruin of a state is generally preceded by a universal degeneracy of manners, and a contempt of religion.

His father omitted nothing in his education that might render him virtuous and useful.

The daw in the fable was dressed in pilfered ornaments. A favour conferred with delicacy doubles the obligation. They tempted their Creator, and limited the Holy One of Israel.

The precepts of a good education have often recurred in the time of need.

We are frequently benefited by what we have dreaded.

It is no great virtue to live lovingly with good-natured and meek persons.

The Christian religion gives a more lovely character of God than any religion ever did.

Without sinistrous views, they are dexterous managers of their own interest.

Any thing committed to the trust and care of another is a deposite.

Here finish'd he, and all that he had made

View'd and beheld! All was entirely good.

It deserves our best skill to inquire into those rules, by which we may guide our judgment.

Food, clothing, and habitations, are the rewards of industry. If we lay no restraints upon our lusts, no control upon our appetites and passions, they will hurry us into guilt and misery.

An Independent is one who, in religious affairs, holds that every congregation is a complete Church.

Receive his counsel, and securely move:

Intrust thy fortune to the Pow'r above

Following life in creatures we dissect,

We lose it in the moment we detect.

The acknowledgment of our transgressions must precede the forgiveness of them.

Judicious abridgments often aid the studies of youth.

Examine how thy humour is inclin'd,

And which the ruling passion of thy mind.

He falters at the question :

His fears, his words, his looks, declare him guilty.

Calico is an Indian stuff made of cotton; sometimes stained with lively colours.

To promote iniquity in others, is nearly the same as being the actors of it ourselves.

The glazier's business was unknown to the ancients.

The antecedent, in grammar, is the noun to which the relative refers.

SECT. 2.

Be not afraid of the wicked: they are under the control of Providence. Consciousness of guilt may justly affright us. Convey to others no intelligence which you would be ashamed to avow.

Many are weighed in the balance, and found wanting. How many disappointments have, in their consequences, saved a man from ruin!

A well-poized mind makes a cheerful countenance.

A certain householder planted a vineyard, but the men employed in it made ungrateful returns.

Let us show diligence in every laudable undertaking.

Cinnamon is the fragrant bark of a low tree in the island of Ceylon.

A ram will butt with his head, though he be brought up tame, and never saw the action.

We perceive a piece of silver in a basin, when water is poured on it, though we could not discover it before.

Virtue embalms the memory of the good.

The king of Great Britain is a limited monarch; and the British nation a free people.

The physician may dispense the medicine, but Providence alone can bless it.

In many pursuits, we embark with pleasure, and land sorrowfully.

Rocks, mountains, and caverns, are of indispensable use, both to the earth and to man.

The hive of a city, or kingdom, is in the best condition, when there is the least noise or buzz in it.

The roughnesses found on our entrance into the paths of virtue and learning, grow smoother as we advance.

That which was once the most beautiful spot of Italy, covered with palaces, embellished by Emperors, and celebrated by poets, has now nothing to show but ruins.

Battering rams were anciently used to beat down the walls of a city.

Jockey signifies a man that rides horses in a race; or who deals in horses.

The harmlessness of many animals, and the enjoyment which they have of life, should plead for them against cruel usage.

We may be very busy, to no useful purpose.

We cannot plead in abatement of our guilt, that we are ignorant of our duty.

Genuine charity, how liberal soever it may be, will never empoverish ourselves. If we sow sparingly, we shall reap accordingly.

However disagreeable, we must resolutely perform our duty.

A fit of sickness is often a kind chastisement and discipline, to moderate our affection for the things of this life.

It is a happiness to young persons, when they are preserved from the snares of the world, as in a garden enclosed.

Health and peace, the most vaiuable possessions, are obtained at small expense.

Incense signifies perfumes exhaled by fire, and made use of in religious ceremonies.

True happiness is an enemy to pomp and noise.

Few reflections are more distressing, than those which we make on our own ingratitude.

There is an inseparable connexion Detween piety and

virtue.

Many actions have a fair complexion, which have not sprung from virtue.

Which way soever we turn ourselves, we are encountered with sensible demonstrations of a Deity.

If we forsake the ways of virtue, we cannot allege any colour of ignorance, or want of instruction.

SECT 3.

There are more cultivators of the earth, than of their own hearts.

Man is encompassed with dangers innumerable.

War is attended with distressful and desolating effects. It is confessedly the scourge of our angry passions.

The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.

The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few. The greater our incitements to evil, the greater will be our victory and reward.

We should not encourage persons to do what they believe to be wrong.

Virtue is placed between two extremes, which are on both sides equally blamable.

We should continually have the goal in our eyes, which would direct us in the race.

The gaols were forced open, and the prisoners set free.

It cannot be said that we are charitable donors, when our gifts proceed from selfish motives.

Strait is the gate, and narrow the way, that lead to life eternal.

Integrity leads us straight forward, disdaining all doublings, and crooked paths.

Licentiousness and crimes pave the way to ruin.

Words are the counters of wise men, but the money of fools. Recompense to no man evil for evil.

He was an excellent person; a mirror of ancient faith in early youth.

Meekness controls our angry passions; candour, our severe judgments.

He is not only a descendant from pious ancestors, but an inheritor too of their virtues.

Idle persons spend their time, and eat the fruits of the earth, like vermine or wolves.