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of these, they are often found, though in palaces, to be restless and wretched.

OH! how difconfolate is the condition of the man, who, though always present with his maker, yet finds no joy nor fatisfaction in his prefence! Though every particle of matter is actuated by this almighty being; though nature, through all her works, proclaims his wisdom, power, and goodness, unutterable; yet the man who is a stranger to divine love, views all this wonderful scenery

"With a brute unconscious gaze."- THOMPSON.

HE taftes none of that facred joy which these things were meant to infpire. The divinity is with him and in him, and every where about him, but is of no advantage to him. It is in fact the same thing to him as if there were no God in the world.

HAPPILY different is the condition of the man who loves the great author of

his being! When that divine passion, (the foul's true light) is fet up in our hearts, the fcales of blindness fall from our eyes, the shades of night fly far away, and God, the bleffed God, ftands confeffed before our admiring view. Tho we cannot behold him with the eyes of fenfe, yet, we can feel his prefence, we can tafte and fee his adorable perfections which fhine fo brightly on all his glorious works.

WHEN WE Confider the infinite hoft of stars which adorn the evening skies; when, enlarging the idea, we contemplate another heaven of funs and worlds rifing still higher, and these again enlightened by a ftill fuperior firmament of luminaries, overwhelmed by fuch an immenfity of profpect, we scarcely breathe out- Eternal God! what is man that thou art mindful of him, or the Son of Man that thou regardeft him!"

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WHEN, leaving these amazing scenes, we contemplate other parts of the divine dominions; when we walk through the fields and obferve his wondrous workmanship in the touring trees or humbler fhrubs; in the gentle rill or majestic flood; in the birds winging their airy flight, or perched on branches warbling their melodious lays; in the peaceful flocks grazing their fimple pastures with herds of nobler cattle; or, in the fwarms of gilded infects that, with ceaselefs buzz, and vigorous motion, prefent their golden wings to the fun. In thefe, in all his infinitely varied creatures, we fee, we admire, we adore the great creator.

THE man whom love has thus taught to correfpond with God, enjoys the moft delightful and improving fociety. In the deepest folitude where others are depreffed, he is happy, because he knows that he is with the greatest and best of beings:

beings and when his earthly friends have withdrawn their agreeable company, he returns with ftill fuperior pleafure to that of his heavenly.

DIVINE love adds greatly to our happiness, because it difpofes us to rejoice in every thing that seems connected with the honor of God. His Sabbath, his house, &c. become objects of our most hearty love and delight.

We live in a country, where one day

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in every week is fet apart for the public worship of God. To the man who loves not his maker, this difpofition of the seventh day is not very likely to be pleafing. As he is not a religious man, it is more than probable that he is a man of the world, a man of business or pleasure ; and in either cafe the Sabbath must be unwelcome, as it is an interruption, and indeed a clear lofs of one day's pleafüre or profit in every week. A lofs, which in the course of years muft grow to be

very ferious: For, if we take fifty, (the number of tastelefs and unprofitable Sabbaths in the year,) and multiply those by seventy, (the years in a veteran's life) we fhall find that it will amount to eight or ten years. Now, out of fo fhort a life as threefcore and ten, to be obliged to fpend eight or ten years in lounging, moping, tiresome Sabbaths, must appear to men who have their interests and pleafures at heart, a heavy tax, a great drawback. Sure, ly fuch men would give their thanks; nay, I fuppofe, would chearfully vote the thanks of all christendom to him, who fhould put them in the way to make the Sabbath the most agreeable day in the week. Let us love God, and the work is done. We fhall then rejoice that there is fuch a day, because our hearts will then approve the purposes for which it was appointed. A day that is taken from the cares of a short

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