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181 K] Hugh Ptiers last Legacy to his Daughters 
siffected with a gutta serena, which sunk April 24, 1759. He was interred in 
him into a state of despondency, and at Westrninster-Abbey, where, by his own 
length terminated in l)is total blindness, order, and at his own expence, a mo« 
He was present at the performance of nument has been erected to his memory, 
one of his oratorios, only eight days He lived in celibacy, and left a consi-= 
before his death, whicii happened on derable fortune to his German relations* 
SCARCE TRACTS, WITH EXTRACTS AND ANALYSES OF 
SCARCE BOOKS. 
It is propos&d in future to devote a few Pages of the Monthly Magazine to the 
Insertion of such Scarce Tracts as are of an interesting Nature, with the Use. 
of which 2 ce may be favoured by our Correspojidents; and under the same Mead to 
introduce also the Analyses of Scarce and Curious Books. 
A Dying FufhePs last Legacy to an 
Onely Child, or Mr. Hugh Peters* 
Advice to his Daughter, 
If ontinasd from page 
12. 'TN like n)anner against that 
I spreading et’il of being a bu- 
sie-hody, and pragmaiicul, which is the 
plague of man-kind. 1 Thess. 4. 11. The 
words are very full and plain, study to be 
cjuiety do your own business, work zoith 
your own hands. The last two \vili core 
the former danger. Read and know, 
that whilest you look too much into 
others gardens, you will neglect your 
own. Be not like the squirril, leaping 
from tree tp tree, and bough to bough. 
Be much at home, and you will finde 
work enough, as long as you keep Christ 
and sin before you, you will have work 
enough for your thoughts. 
The busie-body is but a pedler to carry 
up atid down, and vend the devil’s wares. 
How few lose any thing by fjuietness, and 
doing their own work.'* Their sweet 
sleep commends it. 
Oh keep home, keep home; I speak 
experience to you; who never found 
good hour but in mine own work: nor 
doth this cut olF works of love, or cha¬ 
rity, which must be attended in their 
seasons, and by their rules. The cure 
of this evil lies much in studying duty, 
the end of your creation, and being tiie 
practice of saints; that though you work 
here, ease is in Heaven; ail your labour 
is little enough for your own business ; 
be always ready to say, I am zvhere the 
Lord zcould have me to be. 
How bitter is the remembrance of 
good hours ill spent? How cutting of 
time lost? Death knows no distance, 
whether king, or bishop, or pawn, all at 
the end of the game put into one bagg, 
the grave. Be doing your own work, 
whatever your condition be. Teil me 
what our blessed Lord did, but the work 
Mokthly Map, No. 
he was sent about ! Be like him in thk, 
as in all things else, and that spirit of 
the Lord Jesus be with thee,, (my dear 
heart.) 
13. Through your whole course let 
truth have its way, and do not make lyes 
your refuge, they will mock you in the 
end. 
Ail the world is hung with lyes, and 
all of man proclaims so much; clothes, 
meats, trades, salutations, yea one pro- 
fession of religion: all men are liars,'and 
all things on this side Christ a lie. The 
prince of the air makes it Ids work, whf> 
was the father of lies. Christ calls for 
yea and nay only. 
Let vour conversation he without suile, 
without a lie, the Lord is the heart- 
searcher. 
Sow up your mouth, but let it be with 
Iionestie; not policie. As you nevei- itut c 
your self by speaking little, so will you 
never gain any thing by telling a lie. 
Let others call this sin a vertue, hut do 
you call it by its own name, and hate it 
as poison. 
Let truth be thy portion, it v%'Ilj pre¬ 
serve you, and ever say, I cazi do nothing 
against the truth; (dear child). 
14. And what I said last, urgeth me to 
commend wisdom to you, which is a very 
comprehensive word, and is justified of 
her children. But I mean not fhe wis¬ 
dom of this world, whether natural or 
artificial: I intend, scripture-wisdom, 
which is from above. And this is a 
I’ght that God sets upon the soul, to di¬ 
rect us, and afflict us, in our whoie 
course, Job 28, last. The fear of the 
Lord, that is wisdom : and to depart fre^n 
evil, that is understanding : if yoti be 
wise, be wise for your self: to have ail 
books in. one’s head, and want this cate¬ 
chism in the heart, will never amount 
to it. Let your companions be the chil¬ 
dren of wisdom : judge of ail things by 
thi§ wisdom^, which will make you look 
