ftrate to the unbelieving, the existence of God, from the works of nature. I would not fo much wonder at this attempt if they addressed themselves to the believing; for to them, who have a living faith in the heart, every thing that is, manifeftly appears as the work of the God whom they adore. But it is very different with those in whom this living light is extinct and fought to be revived -thofe deftitute of faith and grace, who, while fearching with all their light, all they fee in nature, which might lead them to the knowledge of God, yet find, only, obfcurity and darkness. To fay to fuch that they have only to behold the leaft of the things which furround them, and they will find God revealed therein, as at once a proof of this great and important truth; to point to the course of the moon or the planets, and profefs thus to have accomplished its demonftration, is truly to afford them ground for believing that the evidences of our Religion are very weak, and I am afsured from reafon and experience, that nothing is more fitted to inspire them with contempt of those evidences.-PASCAL.

A Good Man.

E is a good man who grieves rather for him that injures him, than for his own fuffering; who prays for

him that wrongs him, forgiving all his faults; who fooner fhows mercy than anger; who offers violence to his appetite, in all things endeavouring to fubdue the flesh to the fpirit. This is an excellent abbreviative of the whole duty of a Christian. JEREMY TAYLOR.

A Good Name.

HERE are three crowns; the crown of the law, the crown of the priesthood, and the crown of royalty: but the crown of a good

name is fuperior to them all. - TALMUD

Tr. Aboth.

Goodness.

GOODNESS is generous and diffufive; it is largenefs of mind and sweetness of temper balfam in

the blood, and juftice fublimated

to a richer fpirit.-JEREMY COLLIER. 2. If for any thing he loved greatness, it was because therein he might exercife his goodness.-SIR PHILIP SIDNEY.

Good Intentions.

SAD principle, pregnant with fin and fruitful in monfters is a weak and cre

pretence, which unwary

dulous perfons take as a ground for their confidence and incorrigible purfuance of their courfes; that they have a good meaning, that they intend fometimes well and fometimes not ill, and this fhall be fufficient to fanctify their actions and to hallow their fin. And this is of worfe malice, when Religion is the colour for a war; and the preservation of Faith made the warrant for

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deftruction of Charity; and a zeal for GOD, made the false light to lead us to disobedience to man; and hatred of Idolatry is the huiffier of Sacrilege; and the destruction of Superftition, the introducer of Prophaneness; and Reformation made the colour for a Schifm ; and Liberty of confcience the way to a bold and faucy Herefy :-for the end may indeed hallow an indifferent action, but can never make straight a crooked and irregular.-JEREMY TAYLOR.

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Goodness of God.

O confider God as the Governor of the world, in the light wherein we ordinarily behold him, is that

which gives us the clearest conception we can entertain of him, which best anfwers all useful purposes; and has this peculiar advantage, that it represents his Goodnefs, the attribute we are most interested with, in the faireft colours, as attentive to produce all the happiness poffible for his creatures in the nature and conftitution of

things. This, when well inculcated, fatisfies the minds of the Vulgar, and would fatisfy the minds of the Speculative too, if they would abftain from idle queftions concerning Creation, and forbear to afk why things are not otherwise constituted, fo that more happiness might have been produced, than is now poffible. For if we furvey fo much of nature as lies within the reach of our obfervation and reason, we fhall find there is a balance of Good, fufficient to content any reasonable man.-SEARCH.

Government.

HERE feems to be but two general kinds of Government in the world; the one exercised according to the arbitrary commands and will of some single perfon; and the other according to certain orders and laws introduced by agreement or cuftom, and not to be changed without the consent of many. - SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE.

2. WERE every one permitted to carve