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of leaving it. When the duke of Venice shewed Charles the 5th his princely palace and fine gardeus, the emperor said, "These are the things which make us unwilling to die."

307. He who was never wise enough to find out any mistakes or faults in himself, will not be charitable enough to excuse what he reckons the faults or mistakes of others.-Whichcote.

307. There are in the scriptures promises to help our weakness, but none to encourage our wickedness,

308. When we become languid and dull, calamity is the hard whetstone that sets a new edge on our devotion.;

309. All the precepts of the doctrine of Christ seem to concentrate in this point, that eternity is the grand object we should have in view; consequently that the main business of life should be to prepare for it, and that we should esteem the favour of God our chief good.-Haller.

310. Bigotry sets up again the partition wall, which Christ came to cast down.

311. Self-love is a mote in every man's eye.— Old proverb.

312. No animal inflicts wounds so deep and painful as the backbiter.

313. A froward man, saith Solomon, diggeth up evil. He raises and revives those quarrels which the peace-maker had happily buried in oblivion.

314. That is a bad business in which you lose your temper and wound your conscience, though it should bring you heaps of treasure.

315. The feeblest instrument becomes resistless in the hands of the Almighty.

316. Prayer brings down the first blessing, and praise the second.

317. Faithful, well-written history is a map, in which we trace the winding ways and manifold wonders of divine Providence.

318. To think you can overcome sloth with sleep, or concupiscence with indulgence, is like expecting to cure a dropsy by drinking, or a fever by fire.

319. Those pursuits which now drown all serious reflection, will in the end drown men in perdition.

320. While the worldling is coveting silver and gold, do you covet earnestly the best gifts; while he is adding heap to heap, and seeking happiness on earth, do you add grace to grace, and lay up treasure in heaven.

321. Men who usurp the form of christianity without its spirit, give to Christ the vapour of the lips, and to mammon the solid homage of the heart. They are a perpetual mildew on the blossoms, a death-frost round the roots of social piety. Dr. Mason.

322. Ejaculatory prayers are swift messengers, that need but little time to deliver their errand, and soon return again to the soul.

Bishop Hopkins.

323. Lewis of Bazer, Emperor of Germany, used this saying, "Those goods are worth getting and owning that will not sink or wash away if a shipwreck happen, but will swim out and continue with us." All spiritual blessings are of this kind.

324. Three things are absolutely necessary to fit you for the voyage of life. Faith, the helm to steer your course; hope, the anchor to weather the storm; and charity, the sail to waft your vessel. !

325. God's mercies to a miserable world, are more in number than the drops of water in the sea, or the rays of light in the sun.

326. If you die without being renewed in the spirit of your mind, your faith will not save you. The farce of a mock profession will terminate in the tragedy of real and everlasting woe.

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Dr. Mason.

327. If you do not cast away your sins, you will yourself assuredly become a cast away.

328. Strait is the gate and narrow is the way, but if the way is narrow it is not long, and if the gate is strait it opens into endless day.

Bishop Beveridge.

329. To be very anxious about earthly things, is as great folly as for a stranger to give himself much trouble in preparingconveniences at an inn, where he but stays to spend a night, and then goes on his way never to return.

330. Affliction is like a medicine which gives pain, that it may give health.

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Knowledge without zeal resembles a ship in a calm; zeal without knowledge a ship in a tempest."

332. Most men prefer a portion in this life, to the rich eternal pleasures of the next, like that wicked prince who declared he would lose his part in Paradise rather than in Paris.

333. Those who fear the plague, are said to be the first who catch the infection; but they that most fear the plague of sin, are the persons who escape it.

Gurnall

334. The rich have the best chance of getting

worldly wealth, because money makes money; but the poor in spirit only can gain heavenly treasure, for to them it is expressly promised and freely given.

335. The highest flood of natural zeal and resolution may ebb and be wholly dried up; but saving grace is a well of water springing up into eternal life.-Flavel.

336. Angels glorify God by obedience, but not by sufferings. This honour is peculiar to the

saints.

336. It was a saying of the pious Countess of Warwick, "So speak to God as if men heard thee; so speak to men as knowing that God hears thee.'

337. O Lord, who givest grace to the humble, give me grace to be humble.—Ibid.

338. We are commanded to offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually. The fire of divine love and holy gratitude on the altar of the heart, must never go out, but be fed and fanned with unceasing watchfulness and care.

339. If all the sea were ink, the whole earth parchment, and every blade of grass a pen, we could never fully describe the love of Christ.

Augustine.

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