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his law:;, and tlie laws of our country; to support its constitution, and 

 defend our religious and civil liberties; to seek for health and wealth in 

 honest labor and virtue; to attend to the right education of our chil- 

 dren; to encourage and promote those arts and sciences which tend to 

 rear up good men and good citizens; to disseminate human happiness, 

 and to distinguish the civilized man from the barbarous savage, firmly 

 resolving to adorn our station, in all the relations of life, whether as 

 good magistrates, good fathers, good husbands, good brothers, faithful 

 friends, and, in a word, as honest men and useful citizens. 



Are you ready to swear to this? Yea, I trust, you have sworn already, 

 and that we may now lift up our voice in songs of gratitude to God for 

 our full deliverance from the late calamity, and that our prayers, praises 

 and thanksgivings will be as a sweet incense, holy and acceptable before 

 Him! 



" Wherefore, O Lord God, who hath thus wounded us for our trans- 

 gressions, by thy late heavy visitation, but now in the midst of judgment, 

 remembering mercy, hast redeemed our souls from the jaws of death, we 

 offer unto thy fatherly goodness ourselves, our souls and bodies, which 

 thou hast thus delivered, to be a living sacrifice unto Thee; always 

 praising and magnifying Thy mercies in the midst of the church, through 

 Jesus Christ our Lord." Amen. 



One of the finest of the series of discourses of which we arc now 

 speaking is one upon the final destruction of the world. Our 

 author goes over the whole of the sacred Scriptures, showing from 

 the Old Testament, as from the New, that fire, a universal con- 

 flagration, is to be the terrible agency of the great Jehovah in this 

 awful consummation of all things. We have said elsewhere that 

 Dr. Smith was not learned in the dogmatic or polemical writings 

 of the Church of England. Indeed he was not so in that class of 

 writings of any church. His tastes, whether natural or cultivated, 

 did not incline to them; and his office of Provost did not call upon 

 him to make an enforced acquisition of any special sort of lore, in 

 oppugnancy to his natural and cultivated tastes. He was not a 

 teacher of theology. But if he lacked anything of fulness here, 

 he more than supplied it by a thorough knowledge of every part 

 of the Holy Scriptures ; the result, it must have been, of early, 

 long and continuous reading of them. The scrnion of which we 

 now speak, and which we commend to the reading of any one 

 who possesses Maxwell's edition of Dr. Smith's v.'orks, is an illus- 

 tration as full as any other of Dr. Smith's discourses of what wc 

 say. It is a discourse from which wc cannot well make extracts. 



