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iliewing it felf grateful, to Parents, Friends 

 and Benefactors, and making ample returns 

 to thofe by whom he hath been obliged for 

 the favours received : Nothing more ac- 

 ceptable than to be employed in worthy 

 Atftions, efpecially fuch as tend to promote 

 publick good, the peace and profperity of 

 our Country, or Mankind in general The 

 Heathen Poet could fay, 



*Dulce & decorum eft fro T* atria mori. 



It is a fweet and comely thing even to die 

 for ones Country : Which yet I fuppofe is 

 too high a flight or pitch of Charity for a 

 Heathen to attain to ; and that there muft 

 be fomething of glory to carry them fo far. 

 To overcome evil with good, and return 

 Kindnefles inftead of Injuries, thereby melt- 

 ing the Hearts of our Enemies, and mak- 

 ing them our Friends, is certainly a more 

 pleafant thing, and much more for our peace 

 and eafe, than revenging our f elves of them. 

 To return good for evil is a Godlike qua- 

 lity ; our Saviour commanding us to love 

 our enemies^ and do good to them that hate 

 us-> &c. to engage us thereto, propofes 

 God's Example; who caufes his fun to 

 foine on the evi/, and on the good; and fen d- 

 eth ram on the jufi 9 and on the unjuft. Who 



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