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least liable to offend any; and after this Caution first observ'd, it was but natural to make choice chiefly of thofe Difcourfes which were lateft compos'd, and beft liked by the Author.

I fhall only beg leave to add my publick and unfeign'd Acknowledgments for this kind and feasonable Inftance of your Goodness, equally agreeable and obliging to me, whether it flow'd from a particular Regard to the dear Deceas'd, or from a charitable and compaffionate Dispofition to the Fatherless and Widow, and am,

Your much obliged, and

moft obedient, bumble Servant,

MARY STRAIGHT.

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An Enquiry into the Nature of Virtue.

Virtue a fincere Endeavour to know, and do,
what is fitteft and beft to be done.

The Agreement betwixt the Objects of Faith
and the Rules of Practice.
The Refult of this Agreement,

DISCOURSE

How can ye believe, who receive Honour one of ano-
ther, and jeek not the Honour which cometh from
God only?

The Defire of receiving Honour, &c. a Hin-
drance in religious Truths.

The Principle of Self-Prefervation extends itself
to a Defire of receiving the Approbation of the
Society we belong to.

The Honours, &c. of Society esteem'd as fo many
Evidences of our own Excellency. (I
To be hated and contemned by it one of the
greatest Punishments.

The Abuse of this Principle, which is natural,

and, under proper Directions, extremely use-

ful, productive of the worst Confequences.

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