4. REASON is the director of man's will, discovering in action what is good; for the laws of well-doing are the dictates of right reafon.-HoOKER.

It would be well if people would not lay so much weight on their own Reason in matters of Religion, as to think every thing impoffible and abfurd which they cannot conceive. How often do we contradict the right rules of Reason in the whole course of our lives? Reason itself is true and just, but the reason of every particular man is weak and wavering, perpetually swayed and turned by his interests, his paffions, and his vices.SWIFT.

5. REASON in the English language is fometimes taken for true and clear principle; fometimes for clear and fair deductions ; sometimes for the cause, particularly the final caufe.-LOCKE.

6. REASON elevates our thoughts as high as the stars, and leads us through the vast fpaces of this mighty fabric; yet it comes far fhort of the real extent of our corporeal being.-Ibid.

The Reformation.

T is a fingular circumftance, that the Reformation fhould be indebted for its full establishment in Ger

many, to the fame hand which had formerly brought it to the brink of deftruction; and that both events fhould be accomplished by the fame arts of diffimulation. The ends however which Maurice, the Elector of Saxony, had in view at these different junctures, feem to have been more attended to, than the means by which he attained them. It is no lefs worthy of obfervation, that the French king, a Monarch zealous for the Catholic Faith, fhould at the very fame. time when he was perfecuting his own Proteftant fubjects with all the fierceness of bigotry, employ his power in order to maintain and protect the Reformation in the empire; and that the league for this purpose which proved fo fatal to the Romish Church, fhould be negociated and figned by a Roman Catholic Bishop. So wonderfully doth the wisdom of God fuperintend and regulate the

caprice of human paffions, and render them fubfervient towards the accomplishment of his own purposes.-DR. ROBERTSON.

Reformers.

CAN but think it a fubject of laughter as well as of wonder, that you take upon yourself to play the Cenfor, and fet up for a

reformer of mankind; for he that affumes a pretenfion of correcting others, ought to be free from the imputations of the leaft propenfity to vice himself.-PHALARIS, Ep. to Cleoftratus.

2. PUBLIC REFORMERS had need firft practise on their own hearts, that which they purpose to try on others.-KING CHARLES.

Regality.

HE Majefty of England might hang like Mahomet's tomb, by a magnetic charm, between the privileges of the two Houses, in airy

imagination of Regality.-Ibid.

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Religion.

Y Religion, I mean that general habit of reverence towards the Divine Nature, whereby we are enabled and inclined to worship GOD after fuch a manner as we conceive moft agreeable to his will, fo as to procure his favour and bleffing.-BISHOP WILKINS.

2. RELIGION is a public virtue, it is the ligature of fouls and the great inftrument of the confervation of Bodies politic; and is united in a common object, the God of all the world, and is managed by public minifteries, by facrifice, adoration and prayer; in which, with variety of circumftances indeed, but with infinite consent and unity of defign, all the fons of Adam are taught to worship God. No man can hinder our private addreffes to Him, every man can build a chapel in his breaft, himself the Prieft, his heart the facrifice, and the earth he treads on the Altar.-JEREMY TAYLOR.

Remorse.

EMORSE of confcience is like an old wound: a man is in no condition to fight under fuch circumftances. The pain abates his viand takes up too much of his attention. -JEREMY COLLIER.

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Revelation.

EVELATION claims to be the voice of God; and our obligation to attend to His voice is furely moral in all cafes. And as it is infifted that its evidence is conclufive, upon thorough confideration of it; so it offers itself to us with manifeft obvious appearances of having fomething more than human in it, and therefore, in all reafon requires us to have its claims moft seriously examined. BISHOP BUTler.

2. MANY writers upon the fubject of Moral Philofophy, divide too much the law of nature from the precepts of Revelation ;