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may be he hath not faid (what you have heard) and if he hath, that he fpeak it not again. Love thy - friend, and be faithful to him; but if thou betrayest his fecrets, follow no more after him." Remember this, and learn what friendship means.

23. Duty to yourself, in regard to your own Perfon, as to Cleanliness and Health.

Cleanliness and induftry, like health and pleafure, generally accompany each other; for these are to the body what virtue and religion are to the foul. And we are told by Solomon, that

As there is no joy above the joy of the heart, so there are no riches above a found body.'

You may fee in every street a crowd of witnesses that filth and rags introduce vice and mifery; and that the neglect of the body certainly brings on the neglect of the foul. Learn to mend your own clothes, that in cafe you should not be able to pay a taylor, or not be near one, yet you may be fure of being whole and tight; and remember that the cleaner and tighter you keep yourself, according to the nature of your business, the more healthy you will be, and the fafter you will grow. It is with men, as with other animals, in this refpect: a young horse being kept clean, and properly exer

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cifed, will be ten times as valuable as another that runs wild, without any attention.

24. Duty to yourself, in regard to InStruction.

If you cannot read, you should learn. It is a misfortune not to know how to read; but it is a fault if you neglect to learn, when you have an opportunity of doing fo. It is a glorious thing, when not at work, to have always fomething to do, by which you may learn, and be the better for it.

25. Duties of Life in general.

What your particular duties are as a good man, and a good subject, you will learn by reading The Knowledge of a Chriftian made eafy, written by a very good and learned archbishop. Take care of it; it is a valuable little book; the longer you live, the more you will efteem it. You must read it often when you are not employed about your master's bufinefs. It warns you to fhun all those vices, which every one who has a manly spirit, true courage, and a right understanding, is afhamed of.

26. Duty in regard to Hope.

If it were not for hope, defpair would feize the mind. You know not what a day will bring forth:

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but if you hope, as you justly may, that by the kindnefs of Providence, you fhall not want food nor rayment, nor shelter from the weather, nor health, nor contentment; you may also hope for the mercy of God after death. He actually gives you from day to day your daily bread: he hath promifed you. everlasting happiness if you obey him: you may fafely trust him: 'tis but to obey him, and you will never defpair: your hopes will ever be in a ftate of spring, and all the advantages of a plentiful harvest will follow. You will be free from forrowing as men without hope, and always truft in God.

27. Wisdom and Folly.

All the actions of human life are in fome degree wife or foolish. The true way of difcovering the one from the other, is by comparing them with the Commandments of God.

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Behold, fays Solomon, the fear of the Lord (by which is meant great care not to offend your Maker) that is wisdom; and to depart from evil, that is understanding.'

"The wife man's eyes are in his head, but the fool walketh in darkness." And "as a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool to his folly." It is abfurd for any man to pretend to love God, and not obey him if thou dost obey him, thou loveft him, and he

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will love and protect thee; and thou canst not be unhappy whilst thou livest under his protection. When thou dieft, and thy foul leaves thy body, then thou wilt enter into joy everlasting. These things are as true as the Gospel, and the glorious fruits of an honeft, fober, and virtuous life. He who confiders this well, will find his heart dance and spring forth with joy.

Thou mayst be affured that there is a much greater difference between a wife man and a fool, than there is between a rich man and a poor one, whatever notions men may entertain to the contrary concerning riches; and as it is in every man's power to be wife, therefore it is in every man's power to enjoy a greater good than riches.

My fon, let not mercy, nor truth; justice, nor the love of God, ever forfake thee. Bind them about thy neck wear them in thy bofom: write them on the table of thine heart. Stop thine ears, and manner of evil: and

guard thine eyes, against all remember that Jefus Chrift, the great Judge and friend of mankind, fuffered a painful death, that through his blood thou mightest (if thou doft thine own endevors) be faved from all punishment, and become a partaker of the joys and glories of heaven. Let this be thy comfort, and the subject of thy conftant joy, for the mercies of God are extended over all his works, and common to the rich and poor.

Form of an Indenture.

This Indenture Witneffeth, That

fon of

in the county of

of the parish of

doth, with his own

free and voluntary confent, put himself apprentice to of the parish of

of

in the county with him, after the manner of an apprentice, to dwell and ferve, from the date hereof, until the full end and term of

years from hence next enfuing, fully to be compleat and ended; during all which said term, he, the faid apprentice, his faid master well and faithfully shall serve, his fecrets keep, his commandments, lawful and honeft, every where gladly do and perform: Hurt to his faid mafter he fhall not do, nor of others fee or know to be done, but that he to his power fhall lett, or forthwith give warning to his faid mafter of the fame : The goods of his faid mafter he fhall not wafte, nor to any unlawfully lend; fornication he fhall not commit; matrimony he shall not contract; at cards, dice, tables, or any other unlawful games, he fhall not play; taverns or alehoufes he shall not frequent ; from his faid mafter's fervice, by day or night, unlawfully, he fhall not abfent himfelf; but in all things, as a faithful fervant and apprentice, he fhail bear and behave himself to his faid mafter, and all his, during the faid term: And the said mafter his said apprentice, in the art he now ufeth, after the best manner he knows or can, fhall teach, inftruct, and inform, or caufe to be taught and informed, with due correction; finding his faid apprentice, meat, drink,

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