6 CONTEMPLATIONS ON 



of the Great Creator of all things, we should pause 

 before we either enter upon or continue in a state 

 of sin, folly, or indifference. We have a kind 

 and compassionate Saviour to intercede for us 

 a merciful Father ready to forgive us we are 

 assured that the ways of religion are ways of plea- 

 santness, and that all her paths are peace. The bible 

 contains the most affecting promises, as well as 

 the most awful denunciations. The mens con- 

 scia recti, that inward monitor, which every one 

 possesses, may be stifled for a time, but it will be 

 heard in the hour of sickness, misfortune or of 

 death. Then comes that bitter agony, which it 

 is the part of a wise and good man to use his 

 utmost endeavours to avoid. 



As I have remarked before, the study of the 

 works of creation, are well adapted to assist us in 

 acquiring a knowledge of the Great Creator, and 

 of forming our minds into a tranquil and happy 

 state. Our affections will be refined by it, our 

 dispositions become gentle and kind, and we shall 

 have an employment equally useful and agreeable. 

 We shall then learn that what we now consider 

 trifles in the scale of creation, are not so but 

 value them as convincing evidences of the wise 

 controul of a beneficent Providence. 



The very law that moulds a tear, 



And bids it trickle from its source, 

 That law maintains the world a sphere, 



And guides the planets in their course. 



