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minates it good or bad. ' We adore the fortu- 

 nate, and despise the conquered.'* 



COLASTERION. 



There is some of this leaven in the judgments 

 of most, notwithstanding those brighter disco- 

 veries, in the noon of Christianity we live under. 

 A Bible, thoroughly observed, would expound 

 to us much of the riddle, and dark passages of 

 Providence : we are so short sighted, that we 

 cannot see beyond time ; we value things, and 

 men, by their temporal prosperities, and tran- 

 sient glories ; whereas if we put eternity into 

 the other scale, it would much out-poise that 

 worldly lustre, that so much abuses our eye, 

 and cozens our understandings. 



I find not in holy writ, that God hath inse- 

 parably annexed goodness and greatness, justice 

 and victory : he hath secured his servants of 

 the felicities of a better life, but not of this. 

 Christ's kingdom was not, our happiness is ,jiot, 

 of this world. 



Nor doth my Bible shew me any warrant for 

 appeal to Heaven for the decision of this, or 

 that intricacy : by bestowing success upon this 

 party, or that cause, according to its righteous- 



* To K^aT?(TO» TI//.W/XJV, TO a9rO^«^05 KOtlctl^i^OfAiV. 



