which must make the dedication: it is this which mult firft diftinguish them from the unhallowed pile, where dirty tricks and impofi tions are practifed by the hoft upon the travel. ler, who tarries but for a moment and returns not again.

We all take notice, how close and referved people are; but we do not take notice at the fame time, that every one may have fomething to conceal, as well as ourselves; and that we are only marking the diftances and taking the measures of felf-defence from each other, in the very inftances we complain of: this is fo true, that there is fcarce any character fo rare, as a man of a real open and generous integrity, ---who carries his heart in his hand,--who fays the thing he thinks; and does the thing he pretends. Though no one can dislike the character,--yet Difcretion generally shakes her head, and the world foon lets him into the reafon.

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"O that I had in the wilderness a lodging "of way-faring men! that Imight leave fuch a "people and go from them." Where is the man of a nice sense of truth and strong feelings,

from whom the duplicity of the world has not at one time or other wrung the fame wish; and where lies the wilderness to which fome one has not fled, from the fame melancholy impulse?

Thus much for those who give occafion to be thought ill of :— - let us fay a word or two unto those who take it.

But to avoid all common-place cant, as much as I can on this head,

I will forbear to say,

because I do not think it, that it is a breach

of Christian charity, to think or speak evil of our neighbour, etc.

-We cannot avoid it: our opinions must follow the evidence; and we are perpetually in fuch engagements and fituations, that it is our duties to speak what our opinions are--but God forbid, that this ever should be done, but from its best motive--the fenfe of what is due to virtue, governed by difcretion and the utmoft fellow-feeling: were we to go on otherwise, beginning with the great broad cloak of hypo. crify, and fo down through all its little trimmings and facings, tearing away without mercy

all that looked seemly,

a tatter'd world of it.

we fhould leave but

But I confine what I have to say to a character lefs equivocal, and which takes up too much room in the world: it is that of those, who from a general distrust of all that looks difinterested, finding nothing to blame in an action, and perhaps much to admire in it, immediately fall foul upon it's motives: Does Job ferve God for nought? What a vile infinu. ation! befides, the question was not, whether Job was a rich man or a poor man; but, whether he was a man of integrity or no? and the appearances were strong on his fide; indeed it might have been otherwife; it was poffible Job might be infincere, and the devil took the advantage of the die for it.

It is a bad picture, and done by a terrible master, and yet we are always copying it. Does a man from real conviction of heart forfake his vices? -the pofition is not to be allowed, -no; his vices have forfaken him.

Does a pure virgin fear God and fay her fhe is in her climacteric.

prayers:

Does humanity clothe and educate the un

known orphan?

Poverty! thou haft no ge

nealogies: -fee! is he not the father of the child? Thus we do rob heroes of the best part of their glory-their virtue. Take away the motive of the act, you take away, all that is worth having in it;-wreft it to ungenerous ends, you load the virtuous man who did it, with infamy,-undo it allI beseech you: give him back his honour,――restore the jewel you have taken from him,-replace him in the eye of the world—

-it is too late.

It is painful to utter the reproaches which fhould come here.--I will truft them with yourselves in coming from that quarter, they will more naturally produce fuch fruits as will not fet your teeth on edge-for they will be the fruits of love and good-will, to the praise of God and the happiness of the world, which I wish.