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of enthufiafm, often carries men, in war, in friendship, in 
LOVE, in PATRIOTISM, in RELIGION, 
There are many advocates for the total exclufion of the paf- 
fions in all religious concerns. They judge from the fatal ef~ 
feds thefe have fometimes produced : but I think they judge 
partially, for they do not feem to obferve what fatal effeds arife 
from a languid indifference. 
But, not to launch out into too great a field ; in whatever 
degree the pafiions are neceffary, in the exercife of the moft 
exalted worfhip of god, the pleafures of devotion are undoubt- 
edly the moft pure and unmixed. Therefore upon the very 
principle of the love of pleafure, we ought to fet apart a por- 
tion of our time, every day, to the worfhip of god, without 
interruption from the affairs of the world. Thofe whofe cir- 
cumftances are fo happy as to admit of it, ought to perform 
this duty in public, as well as in private; and thofe who 
have a tafie of the cathedral fervice, muft receive a greater 
pleafure than thofe who have none. I am yours, &*c. 
LETTER X. 
7 o the fante. 
Madam, 
A F T E R recommending one of the entertainments exhi- 
xA. bited on the ftage, I muft tell you how much I difap- 
prove of another, as' it is at prefent conduded, tho’ in itfelf 
moft delightful and beneficial. It would be happy, I think, 
for 
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