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16. Fidelity to a Master.

True fidelity, true courage, and true industry go hand in hand. Obey your master with zeal and alacrity, and remember that the best way to merit his praise and good treatment, is to be serviceable to him, and to fhew him that you delight in ferving him. Let him fee by your actions that you love and honor him, and it is to be hoped, he will take care that you fhall not want a friend in time of need.

17. Obedience, with respect to Liberty, and the Laws of your Country.

The fons of Britons are all born to liberty; but I am forry to fay, they do not all understand what liberty means. If it were the liberty of doing mischief to each other, the poor against the rich, it would be full as bad as the rich against the poor; for then we fhould all become miferably poor indeed, and a den of favages. True liberty confists in doing well; in obeying parents, masters, and fuperiors, who have a title to command us. It is thus when we deferve no punishment, that we avoid fuffering any injury. The laws will redrefs our

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18. Duty

18. Duty to Parents.

Our parents when they do their duty, are a kind of representatives of heaven. God has commanded us to obey them-And the eye that mocks his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it." This is a beautiful allufion to that blindness and perverfenefs which leads fome to neglect or infult their parents; and of the punishment they may expect, either by fome temporal calamity which will befall them, or the vengeance of heaven which will certainly overtake them hereafter. Such offences are of fo black a dye, nothing but true repentance and amendment can wipe them out. Love, honor, and respect thy parents; help them in their old age and infirmities that thy children may help thee; and that the Great Father of Mankind may be thy friend, and thy days long in the land wherein the Lord thy God hath given thee life and health, and a capacity to enjoy them, in the ftation in which thou art placed by the appointment of Divine Providence.

19. Duty to God, in respect to keeping the Sabbath-day.

The greater refpect you have for the duty you owe to God, the more attentive you will be to keep

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the fabbath-day in a proper manner, and attend divine service with conftancy and pleasure, whenever you can. If you neglect your duty on this day, you cannot expect any bleffing on any other day. Attend to the inftruction which is given you at church and remember that nothing is so childish as to be careless in that place. The play of children fhould be punished, for if they have not fense enough to know that a church is the temple of God, they should not be permitted to put their feet in it. But even boys and girls of five or fix years of age, being well difciplined, foon learn that a church is a temple, dedicated to the worship of the great Lord of heaven and earth, and nothing contrary to the holiness of it ought, upon any account, to be permitted. Rejoice at the return of the sabbath, not fo much that you reft from your labor, but that you have fo fair an opportunity of offering your heart to your Maker, and begging his mercy for all your offences.

20. Duty to the King.

Though poor, you are a fubject of the most happy country in the world. You live under one of the best governments, and under one of the best of kings on the face of the earth.

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The more respect you pay to the King and the government of your country, the more honor you do yourself. You will find as you grow up, and as you read the fcriptures, what honour is due to the King, and what a fin it is to cheat him, or defraud the public. This injures every body, and is rank ingratitude to thofe on whom you depend for your protection, not to be fubject to be treated unworthily without redrefs. Our Saviour charges us "to render unto Cæfar the things which are Cafar's. Without paying what is demanded by law, there could be no law; and without law, you could not be fure of one moment's liberty or life. Whence it is plain how much you are interested to be honeft towards the king and the public, as well as to private perfons.

21. Duty due to the Clergy.

Next to the king, you must pay honor to the clergy. The king is the head of the church ;-and to despise the clergy is the first step towards defpifing religion; and he that despiseth religion, must be the vileft out-caft of the earth, and is unworthy of the breath he draws. Solomon fays, Fear the Lord with all thy foul, and reverence his priests: love him that made thee, with all thy ftrength, • and forfake not his minifters.' If you fear God,

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22. Duty in regard to Friendship.

Every man is fuppofed to love fomebody more particularly above others; and the perfon fo beloved is called our friend. He that is true to himself, or conftant in his love of truth, is best qualified to enjoy the bleffing of a friend. But remember, if your friend is not virtuous, you had better be without him. Solomon fays, "A faithful friend is a strong defence, and he that hath found such a one hath found a treasure." But if he is not well inclined, he cannot be faithful, and will prove a dangerous companion; for if you do not make him good, he will make you bad. "What fellowship hath the lamb with the wolf, fo the godly with the finner."

To be companions in labor, naturally creates friendship. The poor are in friendship fometimes when the rich are tempted to betray. Obferve the wife man's advice how to value a friend, and how to keep him when you have him, and not break with him, like a child, on every trifling occafion. He fays, "Admonifh a friend, it may be he hath not done (what you fufpect) and if he hath done it, that he do it no more.-Admonish thy friend, it

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