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fublimeft and the fweeteft pleafure; and piety leads to that peace, which the world, and all it poffeffes, cannot bestow.

35. Let others enjoy the pride and pleasure of being called philofophers, deifts, fceptics; be mine the real, unoftentatious qualities of the honest, humble, and charitable Chriftian. When the gaudy glories of fashion and vain philofophy fhall have withered like a short-lived flower, fincere piety and moral honesty shall flourish as the cedar of Lebanon

36. But I reprefs my triumphs. After all my improvements, and all my pantings for perfection, I fhall still be greatly defective. Therefore, to whatever degree of excellence I advance, let me never forget to fhow to others that indulgence which my infirmities, my errors, and my voluntary misconduct, will require both from them, and from mine and their Almighty and most merciful Father.

THE CHILD TRAINED UP FOR THE GAL

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S any father fo unnatural as to wish to have his fon hanged, let him bring him up in idleness, and without putting him to any trade. Let him particularly inure him to spend the Lord's day in play and diverfion, instead of attending on public worship; and inftead of instructing him, on that day, in the principles of the Chriftian religion, let him rob a neighboring hen-rooft, while the proprietor of it is gone to divine fervice.

2. Aftonishing it is to fee fo many of our young people growing up without being apprenticed to any bufinefs for procuring their future livelihood! The Jews had a proverb,

That whoever was not bred to a trade, was bred for the gallows." Every muffulman is commanded by the Koran to learn fome handicraft or other; and to this precept, even the family of the grand Signior fo far conform, as to learn as much about the mechanifm of a watch, as to be able to take it in pieces, and to put it together again.

3. Are Chriftians the only people in the world, who are to live in idlenefs, when one of the injunctions of the decalog

decalogue is, to labor fix days in the week? and an infpired apostle has commanded us to work, under the exprefs penalty of not eating in default of it?"This we commanded you," fays he, "that if any would not work, neither fhould he eat." "Train up a child," fays king Solomon, "in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it."

4. But if you intend him for the gallows, train him up. in the way he would go; and before he is old he will probably be hanged. In the age of vanity, reftrain him not from the follies and allurements of it. In the age proper for learning and inftructions, give him neither. As to catechifing him, it is an old fashioned, puritanical, useless formality. Never heed it, left his mind be unhappily biaffed by the influence of a religious education.

5. Mofes indeed, after faying to the children of Ifrael, "Thou, fhalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy foul, and with all thy might," thought proper to fubjoin, "and those words which I command thee this day, thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children." But we know that Mofes did not intend thofe children to be trained up for the gallows. His advice therefore is not to the purpose.

6. Mine, which is immediately directed to the object in view, must confequently be very different. And paramount to affy other direction which I can poffibly give, I would particularly advise, as an effential part of the course of this education, by which a child, when he arrives to manhood, is intended to make fo exalted a figure, that his parents should fuffer him every fabbath day, during fummer and autumn, to patrol about the neighborhood, and to steal as much fruit as he can carry off.

7. To encourage him more in this branch of his education, in cafe the poor fcrupulous lad should show any com punctions of conscience about it, I would have his mother partake of the stolen fruit; and eat it with keener appetite than she does any of her own, or her husband's lawfully acquired earnings. For his further encouragement, both his parents fhould always take his part, whenever the proprietor of the ftolen fruit prefers to them his complaint against him; and by all means refuse to chastise him for his thievery. 8. They

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8. They should say, "Where is the harm of taking a little fruit? The gentleman does not want it all for his own ufe. He doubtlefs raised part of it for poor people." This will greatly fmooth his way to more extenfive, and more profitable robberies.

9. He will foon perfuade himself, that many rich men have more wealth than they really want; and as they owe part of their affluence to the poor, upon the principle of charity, why fhould not the poor take their fhare without the formality of afking confent? He will now become a thief in good earneft; and finding it eafier, at leaft as he imagines, to fupport himself by theft than by honest industry, he will continue the practice until he is detected, apprehended, convicted, condemned, and gibbeted.

IO. Then he will have exactly accomplished the deftined end of his education, and proved himself to have been an apt fcholar. Under the gallows, and in his laft dying fpeech, he will fay, "Had my father whipped me for breaking the fabbath; and had not my mother encouraged me to rob orchards, and gardens, and hen-roofts on that holy day, I fhould not have been brought to this ignominious punishment.

II. "But they have been the caufe, by encouraging me in my early youth in the ways of fin, of this my awful catastrophe, and probably, of the eternal ruin of my immor. tal foul." Parents, believe and tremble! and resolve to educate your children in oppofition to the gallows.

CHARACTER OF FIDELIA.

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of Fidelia's character, it is neceflary to preface that the is the only child of a decrepit father, whofe life is bound up in hers. This gentleman has ufed Fidelia from her infancy with all the tendernefs imaginable; and has viewed her growing perfections with the partiality of a parent, who foon thought her accomplished above the children of all other men; but never thought fhe was come to the highest improvement of which fhe herfelf was capable. C

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This fondness has had very pleafing effects upon his own happinefs for fhe reads, the dances, the fings, ufes her fpinet and guitar to the utmost perfection. And the young lady's ufe of all thefe excellencies, is to divert the old man in his eafy chair, when he is out of the pangs of a chronical diftemper.

3. Fidelia is now in the twenty-third year of her age; but the application of many admirers, her quick fenfe of all that is truly elegant and noble in the enjoyment of a plentiful fortune, are not able to draw her from the fide of her good old father. Certain it is, that there is no kind of affection fo pure and angelic, as that of a father to a daughter.

4. Fidelia, on her part, as I was going to fay, as accomplifhed as fhe is, with all her beauty, wit, air and mien, enploys her whole time in care and attendance upon her father. How have I been charmed to fee one of the most beauteous women the age has produced, kneeling to help on an old man's flipper! Her filial regard to him is what the makes her diverfion, her bufinefs, and her glory.

5. When the was asked by a friend of her deceased mother, to admit of the courtship of her fon, fhe answered, that she had a great respect and gratitude to her for the overture in behalf of one fo ǹear to her, but that, during her father's life, the, would admit into her heart no value for any thing which fhould interfere with her endeavours to make his remains of life as happy and eafy as could be expected in his circumftances.

6. The happy father has her declaration, that she will not marry during his life, and the pleafure of feeing that refolution not uneafy to her. Were one to paint filial affection in its utmost beauty, he could not have a more lively idea of it than in beholding Fidelia ferving her father at his hours, of rifing, meals, and reft.

7. When the general crowd of female youth are confulting their glaffes, preparing for balls, affemblies, or plays; for a young lady, who could be regarded among the foremoft in thofe places, either for her perfor, wit, fortune, or converfation, and yet contemn all thefe entertainments, to fweeten the heavy hours of a decrepit parent, is a refignation truly heroic.

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8. Fidelia performs the duty of a nurfe with all the beauty of a bride; nor does fhe neglect her rfon, because of her attendance upon him, when he is too ill to receive company, to whom the may make an appearance.

9. Fidelia, who gives him up her youth, does not think it any great facrifice to add to it the fpoiling of her drefs. Her care and exactnefs in her habit convince her father of the alacrity of her mind; and the bas of all women the best foundation for affecting the praife of a feeming negligence.

IO. Those who think themfelves the pattern of good breeding, and refinement, would be aftonished to hear, that, in thofe intervals, when the old gentleman is at eafe, and can bear company, there are at his houfe in the most regular order, affemblies of people of the highest merit; where there is converfation without mention of the abfent, and the higheft fubjects of morality treated of as natural and accidental difcourfe.

II. All of which is owing to the genius of Fidelia, who at once makes her father's way to another world eafy, and herself capable of being an honor to his name in this.

HISTORY OF JERUSALEM.

ACCORDING to Manetho, an Egyptian hiftorian, Jerufalem was founded by the fhepherds who invaded Egypt in an unknown period of antiquity. According to Jofephus, it was the capital of Melchifedeck's kingdom, and built in honor of that prince, by twelve neighboring kings.

2. We know nothing of it with certainty, however, till the time of king David, who took it from the Jebufites, and made it the capital of his kingdom. It was firft taken in the days of Jehoafh, by Hazael, king of Affyria, who flew all the nobility, but did not deftroy their city.

3. It was afterwards taken by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, who destroyed it and carried away the inhabitants. Seventy years after, permiffion was granted by Cyrus king of Perfia to the Jews to rebuild their city, which was done; and it continued the capital of Judea till the

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