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II This discipline is preparatory to another which shall be exempt from affliction.

1. The Scriptures assert the existence of such a place called heaven, Kingdom of God, Paradise, New Jerusalem, &c. It is implied in the doctrine of immortality.

2. It is consistent with all rational supposition. — Analogy between this world and other planets.-3. All causes of sorrow shall cease there. - 4. It is everlasting in its duration.

APPLICATION.

Do I address the mourner who has lost friends, estate, health? - the aged?-youth declining in early life? &c.

3.

Gal. iii. 18, "But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing."

Christianity is designed to call into activity the noblest sentiments of the heart,firm resolve, intrepid daring and undaunted perseverance, – zeal.- The Christian's life is a holy warfare, - a holy chivalry. The Apostle lays down the proposition, that if anything is good, it is good to be zealously affected in that good cause, Christianity is good considered. I. In respect to its orign, divine, bears its marks, -- it is interesting to contemplate nature, but much more revelation, the noblest gift of God to man.

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II. In its nature, its theory of doctrines, its code of moral rules was never equalled by 1. Philosophy, -2. Education, — all improvement has failed without it. Its nature renders it efficient in its effects,- its preser vation, - triumph over infidelity. -

III. Its effects,-individual effects.-1. Benevolence, -2. Death. — 3. Peace of conscience.

2. General effects,-1. It prevents crime.-2. Elevates society. -3. Sustains good government. -4. War.

We should be zealous, 1. Because God commands us to be so. 2. The wants of the world call for it. 3. Our happiness hereafter will be propor tioned to our zeal, a philosophical as well as Scriptural fact, We have tgh examples to copy, the apostles, martyrs, and reformers, — Wesley Kuitfield, &c.

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94. The rose. 95. The lily. 96. Remorse. 97. The voice. 98. Grace. 99. Gesture. 100. Woman. 101. Man.

102. Youth and manhood.
103. The sacred Scriptures
104. The press.
105. The pulpit.

106. The human frame.
107. Travelling.
108. Language.
109. Liberty.
110. Infidelity.

111. Atheism.
112. Independence.

113. The existence of God. 114. Light.

115. Darkness. 116. Heat.

117. Cold.

118. The rainbow. 119. The wife.

120. The husband.

121. Influence of Christianity. 122. Stability of character. 123. Instability of character 124. Peevishness.

125. Art of pleasing.

126. Local associations.

127. Influence of female character

128. Discretion.

129. New England.

130. Paternal influence.
131. Maternal influence.
132. Intemperance.

133. Fashionable Follies.
134. Emigration.

135. Intellectual dissipation.
136. Intellectual discipline.
137 The warrior.

138. The statesman.

139. The legislator.

140. The judge.

141. A field of battle.

142. A naval engagement.
143. Immortality.

144. Decision of character

145. Romance.

146. Flattery.
147. Industry

148. Temperance.
149. Resentment.
150. Lying.
151. Piety.
152. Anger.
153. Poetry.
154. Envy.
155. Virtue.
156. Justice.
157. Adversity.
158. Pride.
159. Compassion.
160. Avarice
161. Slander.
162. Mercy.
163. Wealth.

164. Prudence.

-165. Gratitude.

166. Affectation.
167. Loquacity.
168. Wisdom.
169. Luxury.
170. Health.

171. Pleasure.

172. Gaming.

173 Religion.

174. Study:

180. Virtue and vice.

181. Parsimony and prodigality. 182. Hope and fear.

183. Reward and punishment. 184. Beauty and deformity. 185. Affection and hatred. 186. Arrogance and humility. 187. Order and Confusion. 188. Carelessness and caution 189. Contentment and dissatisfac tion.

190. Emulation and sloth.. 191. Cleanliness.

192. Religious intolerance 193. Charity.

194. Contentment. 195. Courage.

196. Hope.

197. Perseverance.

198. Conscience.

199. Death.

200. Life.

201. Sickness.

202. Health.

203. Good humor.

204. Omniscience of God.

205. Omnipresence of God. 206. Truth.

207. Sincerity.

208. Procrastination

209. Trust in God.

210. Pleasures resulting from,

proper use of our faculties

211. Modesty.
212. Application.
213. Discretion.
214. Christianity.
215. Suspicion.
216. Fortitude.
217. Forgiveness.
218. The seasons.
219. Filial affection.

220. Harmony of nature.
221. Adversity.

222. Distribution of time.
223. Sources of knowledge.
224. Conjugal affection
225. Filial piety.
226. Generosity.
227. Heroism.

228. Despair.

229. Government.

230. Dramatic entertainment

231. Fables and allegories.

232. Figurative language.

233. Commerce.

234. Chivalry.

175. Experience.

176. l'eace and war.

177. Want and plenty.

179. Happiness and misery.

236. Natural history.

178. Ignorance and learning

235. Philosophy.

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251. The influence and importance of the female character.

252. Is the expectation of reward or the fear of punishment the greater in centive to exertion?

253. The value of time, and the uses to which it should be applied. 254. The character of the Roman Emperor Nero, of Caligula,- of Augus tus, of Julius Cæsar, of Numa Pompilius.

255. The duties we owe to our parents, and the consequences of a neglec

of them.

256. How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

257. How dear are all the ties that bind our race in gentleness together. 258. The advantages of early rising; and the arguments which may be ad duced to prove it a duty.

259. Misery is wed to guilt.

260. A soul without reflection, like a pile
Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
261. Still where rosy pleasure leads
See a kindred grief pursue,

Behind the steps that misery treads
Approaching comforts view.

262. 'Tis Providence alone secures,

In every change, both mine and yours.

263. Know then this truth, enough for man to know, Virtue alone is happiness below.

264. Prayer ardent opens heaven.

Whatever is, is right.

265. Knowledge and plenty vie with each other.

266. When beggars die there are no comets seen;

The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.

267. Friendship is constant in all other things

268.

269.

Save in the office and affairs of love.

Man, proud man,

Drest in a little brief authority,

Most ignorant of what he 's most assured.

No might nor greatness in mortality

Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes.

270. They say, best men are moulded out of faults.
271. What we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy it; but being lacked and lost,
Why then we rack the value; then we find
The virtue that possession would not show us
Whiles it was ours.

272. All delights are vain; but that most vain

Which, with pain vurchased, doth inherit pain. 273 Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile.

274 Too much to know is to know nought but fame. Where is any author in the world

275

Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?

276. The hind that would be mated by the lion Must die for love.

277. Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie

Which we ascribe to heaven.

278. The web of our life is of mingled yarn,

Good and ill together: our virtues would be
Proud, if our faults whipped them not; and our
Crimes would despair if they were not
Cherished by our virtues.

279. Let's take the instant by the forward top;

For we are old, and on our quickest decrees
The inaudible and noiseless foot of time

Steals ere we can effect them.

280. They lose the world that do buy it with much care. I can easier teach twenty what were

281.

282.

283.

Good to be done, than be one of the twenty to
Follow mine own teaching.

All things that are,

Are with more spirit chased than enjoyed. Love is blind, and lovers cannot see The petty follies that themselves commit. 284. The world is still deceived with ornament. 285. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treason, stratagems and spoils.

286.

287.

288.

289.

The nightingale, if she would sing by day,
When every goose is cackling, would be thought
No better a musician than the wren.

How many things by season seasoned are
To their right praise and true perfection.
This our life exempt from public haunt,

Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in every thing.
Oftentimes, to win us to our harm,

The instruments of darkness tell us truths,
Win us with trifles, to betray us

In deepest consequence.

I dare do all that may become a man,

Who dares do more is none.

290. If it were done, when 't is done, then 't were well

It were done quickly.

291. Memory, the warder of the brain.

292. Noughts' had, all's spent

293.

294.

Where our desire is got without content.

Things without remedy

Should be without regard.

When our actions do not,

Our fears do make us traitors.

295. Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. The grief that does not speak

296.

Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break. 297. Courage mounteth with occasion.

298. When fortune means to men most good,
She looks upon them with a threatening eye.
He that stands upon a slippery place
Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up.

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