that already-vanquished Spirit is faid till to fuftain against Omnipotence; as the pious curate of our parish tells me, often, with fear and trembling.-But it must be my own fault, if I am damned here. Sobriety and exercise will prevent chronics; there are medi cines for diftempers; falves for fores; and if pain is not to be cured by physic or alleviated by temperance, it foon gives itfelf the coup de grace, and fets us at reft.Indigence arifes more from our wishes, than our wants: our loffes and our griefs are abated by refignation, conquered by time, and recompenfed by hope. Guilt! even guilt, itfelf, is purged away, by penitence and prayer, and leaves not a rack bebind, except aggravated by defpair.

Religion

Religion is the great Panacea of life.. But you must look for it in the Scriptures themselves; the intelligible parts of them. Not in Jacob Behmen's Vifions, Young's Night Thoughts, Taylor's Holy Living and Dying, Hervey's Medi tations, Stilts for a Dwarf in Faith, A Bunch of Violets for a Chriftian's Nose, Buttons for the Breeches of Unbelievers *, or any fuch gloomy enthufiafts, or Methodist Preachers, if you would pre ferve either your cheerfulness, or your reafon,

Believe

HERMIPPUS REDIVIVUS

*Titles of devout books, and religious ex

hortations.

CHAP.

A

CHAP. LIX.

MY ELEGY.

S'tis probable that I may die, fome

time or an other, notwithstanding all my bravery of fpirit, I fhali first take the precaution of fupplying my own Infcription; left the vast pack of troubles that my friends might be overpowered with, on my demife, fhould be the occafion of their fuffering my alhes to be covered with a nameless tomb-ftone, leaving my remains among the undiftinguished herd of those,

"Whom to be born and die,
"Forms all their heraldry."

And I fhould be mortified to be thought one of thofe who are reckoned out by the

bundred,

hundred, and bear no price alone. This would to me be a second death.

THE INSCRIPTION.

Of all the ftates that are; fure a deadman's is the best;

For when of life he's weary; he dies.

away to reft.

And a dying we will

we'll go,

go, we'll go,

And a dying let us go..

No taxes, tythes, or parifh dues, by him fhall then be paid,

Of proctors and excifemen; no longer now afraid..

And a dying, &c...

Of debts, repairs, and houfhold rent he happily ftands clear;

From

From bailiffs and ejectments; Death: privileges here.

And a dying, &c.

Let bullies blufter, tyrants frown; or patrons prove unkind; The live may weep or tremble; they ne'er disturb his mind.

And a dying, &c..

For ftorms of land, or fea, or fate; or worse, a fcolding wife;

The living only feel, or fear, the dead! are free from strife.

And a dying, &c.

Should hunger pinch, or cold affail; or raiment prove thread-bare; Though every ill of life opprefs; yet:

die, and never fear.

And a dying, &c.