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While some have studied monuments, others have studiously declined them; and some have been so vainly boisterous, that they durst not acknowledge their graves; wherein Alaricus* seems more subtle, who had a river turned to hide his bones at the bottom. Even Sylla, who thought himself safe in his urn, could not prevent revenging tongues, and stones thrown at his monument. Happy are they whom privacy makes innocent, who deal so with men in this world, that they are not afraid to meet them in the next; who, when they die, make no commotion samong the dead, and are not touched with that poetical taunt of Isaiah.+ ose 10 gaisd foPyramids,carches, obelisks, were but the irregularities of vain-glory, and wild enormities of ancient magnanimity; but the most magnanimous resolution rests in the Christian religion, which trampleth upon pride, and sits on the neck of ambition, humbly pursuing that infallible perpetuity, unto which all others must diminish their diameters, and be poorly seen in angles of contingency.‡

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To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their productions, to exist in their names and predicament of chimeras, was large satisfaction unto old expectations, and made one part of their Elysium. But call this is nothing in the metaphysics of true belief. To live, indeed, is to be again ourselves, which being not only a hope but an evidence in noble believers, it is all one to lie in St. Innocent's churchyard, as in the sands of Egypt. Ready to be any thing, in the extasy of being ever, and as content with six feet as the Moles of Adrianus.+

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† A stately mausoleum, or sepulchral pile, built by Adrianus in Rome, where now standeth the castle of St. Angelo.

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Pyramids, arches, obelisks, were but the irregularities of vain-glory, and wild enormities of ancient magnanimity; but the most magnanimous resolution rests in the Christian religion, which trampleth upon pride, and sits on the neck of ambition, humbly pursuing that infallible perpetuity, unto which all others must diminish their diameters, and be poorly seen in angles of contingency.‡

Pious spirits, who passed their days in raptures of futurity, made little more of this world than the world that was before it, while they lay obscure in

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* Jornandes de rebus Geticis.

Angulus contingentia, the least of angles.

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the chaos of preordination and night of their forebeings. And if they have been so happy as truly to understand Christian annihilation, extasies, exhoJution, liquefaction, transformation, the kiss of the spouse, gustation of God, and ingression into the divine shadow, they have already had a handsome anticipation of heaven; the glory of the world is surely over, and the earth in ashes unto them. A

To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their productions, to exist in their names and predicament of chimeras, was large satisfaction unto old expectations, and made one part of their Elysium. But call this is nothing in the metaphysics of true belief. To live, indeed, is to be again ourselves, which being not only a hope but an evidence in noble believers, it is all one to lie in St. Innocent's churchyard, as in the sands of Egypt. Ready to be any thing, in the extasy of being ever, and as content with six feet as the Moles of Adrianus.†... Ja si che đà STON V ỦI HEM Tabesne cadavera solvat

Charito Man rogus haud refert.—Lucan.

SIR THOMAS BROWNE.

D* In Paris, where bodies soon consume.

† A stately mausoleum, or sepulchral pile, built by Adrianus in Rome, where now standeth the castle of St. Angelo.

YOUTH AND AGE CONTRASTED

EARLY PIETY.

MOTIVES TO

LET me exhort you now in the days of youth to remember your Creator, from your being as yet uncorrupted by the world.

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Although both scripture and experience testify that man is fallen, and that our nature is corrupted, yet it is equally certain that our earliest passions are on the side of virtue, and that the good seed springs before the tares. Malice and envy are yet strangers to your bosom. Covetousness, that root of evil, hath not yet sprung up in your heart; the selfish, the wrathful, and the licentious passions, have not yet obtained dominion over you. The modesty of nature, the great guardian of virtue, is not seduced from its post. You would blush even in secret to do a deed of dishonesty and shame. High sentiments of honour and of probity expand the soul. The colour comes into the cheek at the smallest apprehension of blame; the ready lightning kindles in the eye at the least appearance of treachery and falsehood. Hence says our Lord to his followers, Unless you become as a child; unless you assume the candour, the innocence, and the purity of little children, you cannot enter into the kingdom of God. Therefore, whilst you are yet an offering fit for heaven, present yourselves at his altar, devote yourselves to his service. How beautiful and becoming

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