1 80 DISSWASIVE againfl a carelefs LIFE, 
as are calculated to make you better and wifer, and then to 
think again ? Nor is this all : You mud court the fociety of 
the wise and virtuous, and fhun the foolish and the idle. 
Thus may you learn to improve your understanding ; to cor- 
rect your fancy and opinion ; and to regulate your passions. 
You profefs to love god and your neighbor \ facriflce your va- 
nity, and let the good of others be your ruling passion. “Visit 
“ the fatherless and the widow be watchful of your own 
integrity, “ and keep yourfelf unfpotted from the world.” 
Remember that you can do nothing but what will make 
your condition better or worse. Both worlds are fo far link’d 
together, that there is hardly any thing of an indifferent nature. 
This is our confolation : the obfervance of truth, and moral 
rectitude, renders our minuted a&ions acceptable to god. 
“ Time,” fays dr. young, in his bold manner, “ is a god.” It 
ought at lead to be revered ; for, indeed, every moment, as it 
flies, calls on us to adore him who gives us time for the per- 
formance of the duties he requires. 
The things which engage your attention, your care, your 
folicitude, which amufe or delight, perplex or trouble you, what 
are they? the toys of children? Compared with the things 
which belong to eternity, they are, in the language of the 
fcriptures, “ as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.” — > 
When you fee men trefpafs on thofe laws which are given for 
their guide ; when you behold them, in their eager purfuits of 
falfe pleafure, trampling on virtue ; when you observe the 
ifllie, and that as they live fo they die : if you believe in a 
date of rewards and punifhments, you may well break forth, in 
the 
5 
