bold in the discharge of his duty. At the time people are employed in their proper occupations, and have no leisure for fuch an office, it is to be prefumed they can afford to pay for it; but when they are not employed, or cannot afford it, or mean to fave their money, then it is this knowledge and habit is of the utmost moment to their welfare.

It is but changing the object. One of the greatest differences between the rich and the poor is, that the laboring part of mankind cannot be fo clean in their perfons, nor fo well clothed; but they may wear whole or patched garments; and we often see poor cleanly people, and fometimes very dirty rich ones.

Food and raiment, and a houfe to cover us, being the most effential articles to our temporal state; the more able mankind are to affift themselves, the more happy and contented they will generally be. This extends to all the fons

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fons of men, but more particularly relates to those who are born to the laborious offices of life in an humble ftate.

Let me recommend these hints to your correction and improvement, as opportunities offer, and be affured that I am,

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HEN we fee one part of mankind

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fo much employed in their various occupations, and the other in the amufements of life, it requires no acute obfervation to discover why there is not more thought bestowed on promoting univerfal obedience to the Great Maker of the world. The religion of all countries leads men to maintain certain perfons, to remind men of their laft end; and without fuch, it is probable they would lose all fenfe of being accountable. But in the most enlightened ages, the precepts of fuch men given in the way of office and duty, are not fufficient to answer all the purposes for which they are authorized to act; and philofophers in all ages have endevored to be afiiftant to them, whilft statef men, in procefs of time, have been obliged

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to confefs, that the great mafs of government could not be moved in its proper orb, merely by the force of the civil magistrate: and therefore it has been neceffary to influence the minds of a people by motives of fear in respect to an invisible power above.

The most reverend Dr. SYNGE has left a little tract to teach Chriftian Knowledge in the most fimple manly manner that I have yet feen. And to compleat his system of Christianity, he has added very clear and proper answers to the objections commonly made against performing an effential christian duty; effential indeed, for it is an express injunction laid on all his followers by the great

Lord and Saviour of the world.

This fmall treatise contains the most nervous fenfe, and the most confiftent piety. The Right Reverend Prelate feems to have had a very exact knowledge of the human heart, and a clear difcernment of the various fallacies of it. The advice he gives is fo judicious, and at the fame time fo recommendatory of true piety; fo comfortable, and yet fo guarded against all encouragement to prefumption,

fumption, that it is worthy the perufal of the greatest divine, or philofopher, whilft it is intelligible to every one.

The meaneft of mankind, with common fense or candor, cannot read this tract without being made almoft, if not altogether a Christian. He must see the dying commands of his crucified Lord in fuch a light, as to be unable to refift the force of them; or he muft become foolish, or abandoned to wickedness. That which before might ftrike him with a dark mysterious awe, which prevented his thinking of ever going to commemorate the death of his Saviour, will now appear as a kind and gracious invitation to the fupper of his friend, his Lord and mafter, there to confirm and strengthen his refolutions of a ftrict and faithful remembrance, love and obedience. Heaven grant it may have this effect on you!

J. H.

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