HE! in whose presence there is no unrighteousness, no forgetfulness, no respect of perfons, no acceptance of bribes, for every thing is his. Know also that every thing is done according to account. Let not thine imagination feed thee with the hope, that the grave is a place of refuge for thee: for without thy consent thou wert formed, without thy consent thou wert born, without thy consent thou liveft, without thy consent thou must die, and without thy consent thou must hereafter render a responsible account before the Sovereignty of the King of kings. Bleffed be HE.-Rabbi ELEAZAR HAKAPPAR.

3. IN creating and making existent the world univerfal by the abfolute act of his own word, GOD fhowed his power and his almightiness.-SIR WALTER RALEIGH.

4. In the wilderness, the bittern and the ftork, the unicorn and the elk, live upon His provifions and revere his power, and feel the force of his almightinefs. - JEREMY TAYLOR.

5. He is GOD, the Great, the Mighty, the Tremendous, the Merciful, the Gracious,

the Benign, the Wife, the Faithful, the Juft, and the Virtuous. Omnifcience, Omniprefence, Omnipotence are His alone, whofe Being knew no beginning and can know no end. The MISHNA TORAH.

Ambition.

MBITION is the most troublefome and vexatious paffion that can afflict the fons of men.

Virtue hath not half fo much trouble in it, for it fleeps quietly without startings and affrighting fancies; it looks cheerfully, fmiles with much ferenity, and though it laughs not often, yet it is ever delightful in the apprehenfions of fome faculty. It fears no man, nor no thing, nor is it ever difcompofed, and hath no concernments in the great alterations of the world; and entertains Death like a friend, and reckons the iffues of it, as the greatest of its hopes. But Ambition is full of diftractions; it teems with ftratagems, as Rebecca with ftruggling twins, and is fwelled with expectations as with a tym

HE! in whose presence there is no unrighteousness, no forgetfulness, no respect of perfons, no acceptance of bribes, for every thing is his. Know also that every thing is done according to account. Let not thine imagination feed thee with the hope, that the grave is a place of refuge for thee: for without thy consent thou wert formed, without thy consent thou wert born, without thy consent thou liveft, without thy consent thou must die, and without thy consent thou must hereafter render a responsible account before the Sovereignty of the King of kings. Bleffed be HE.-Rabbi ELEAZAR HAKAPPAR.

3. IN creating and making existent the world univerfal by the abfolute act of his own word, GOD fhowed his power and his almightiness.-SIR WALTER RALEIGH.

4. In the wilderness, the bittern and the ftork, the unicorn and the elk, live upon His provisions and revere his power, and feel the force of his almightiness. — JEREMY TAYLOR.

5. HE is GOD, the Great, the Mighty, the Tremendous, the Merciful, the Gracious,

the Benign, the Wife, the Faithful, the Just, and the Virtuous. Omnifcience, Omniprefence, Omnipotence are His alone, whofe Being knew no beginning and can know no end. The MISHNA TORAH.

Ambition.

MBITION is the most troublefome and vexatious paffion that can afflict the fons of men.

Virtue hath not half fo much trouble in it, for it fleeps quietly without startings and affrighting fancies; it looks cheerfully, fmiles with much ferenity, and though it laughs not often, yet it is ever delightful in the apprehenfions of fome faculty. It fears no man, nor no thing, nor is it ever discompofed, and hath no concernments in the great alterations of the world; and entertains Death like a friend, and reckons the iffues of it, as the greatest of its hopes. But Ambition is full of diftractions; it teems with ftratagems, as Rebecca with ftruggling twins, and is fwelled with expectations as with a tym

pany. It fleeps fometimes as the wind in a ftorm, ftill and quiet for a minute, that it may burst out into an impetuous blast till the cordage of his heartftrings crack. It fears when none is nigh, and prevents things that never had intention, and falls under the inevitability of fuch accidents, which either could not be foreseen or not prevented. It is an infinite labour to make a man's felf miserable, and the utmost acquist is fo goodly a purchase, that he makes his days full of forrow to enjoy the troubles of a three-years' reign. Therefore there is no greater unreasonableness in the world than in the defigns of ambition; for it makes the present certainly miserable, unfatisfied, troublesome and discontented, for the uncertain acquifition of an honour, which nothing can secure; and befides a thousand poffibilities of miscarrying, it relies upon no greater certainty than our life, and when we are dead, all the world fees who was the fool.-JEREMY TAYLOR.