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This is my firm resolution. And as a pious man advised his 

 friend, that, to beget mortification, he should frequent churches, 

 and view monuments, and charnel-houses, and then and there 

 consider, how many dead bones Time had piled up at the gates 

 of Death : so when I would beget content, and increase con- 

 fidence in the power, and wisdom, and providence of Almighty 

 God, I will walk the meadows by some gliding stream, and 

 there contemplate the lilies that take no care, and those very 

 many other various little living creatures, that are not only 

 created, but fed, man knows not how, by the goodness of the 

 God of nature, and therefore trust in him. This is my purpose ; 

 and so, "Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord" : 

 and let the blessing of St. Peter's Master be with mine. 



Pise. And upon all that are lovers of virtue, and dare trust 

 in his providence, and be quiet, and go a- Angling. 



"STUDY TO BE QUIET." i Thcs. iv. n. 



