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made mention in the former part of your discourse. 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 confidence 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." l 



1 1 Thess. iv. 11. 



Fishing House on the Lea, by T. Creswick. 



