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not be an excellency without it be regulated by wis- 

 dom and goodness ; and therefore, looking on God 

 as a being infinite in goodness as well as power, we 

 cannot imagine he hath made anything with a de- 

 sign it should be miserable. His justice is nothing 

 but a branch of his goodness." 



" Je ne vais pas si loin que St. Augustin, qui se 

 fut console d'etre damne si telle eut ete la volonte 

 de Dieu. Ma resignation vient d'une source moins 

 desinteressee, il est vrai, mais non moins pure, et 

 plus digne a mon gre de l'Etre parfait que j'adore. 

 Dieu est juste : il veut que je souflfre, et il sait que 

 je suis innocent. Voila la motif de ma confiance, 

 mon cceur et ma raison me crienf quelle ne me 

 trompera pas. Laissons done faire les homraes et 

 la destinee, apprenons a souflfrir sans murmure, tout 

 doit a la fin rentrer dans lordre, et mon tour vien- 

 dra tot ou tard ! " 



It is delightful thus to find enlightened and dis- 

 interested men, who have no object but truth, con- 

 curring in their hopes and views from the sponta- 

 neous deductions of their own individual minds, and, 

 in that perfect love which casteth out fear, reposing 

 on their " Father and their God." 



The subject of the present memoir cherished a 

 perfect faith in the goodness of God. The good- 

 ness of God " was the reason of the hope that was 

 in him." Believing that he framed the human soul 

 for eternal duration and for happiness, he never 

 troubled himself about the time or manner of his 

 future existence, or what was to constitute it ; con- 

 sideringhimself incapable of forming anyjudgement, 



