make upon what we have been, will oblige us to so much the greater degrees of love to God for what we are like to be. Nor is there need of cost, or courting, or of any laborious endeavour to attain the highest dignity and happiness of human nature. It is the free gift of God, and may easily be had. His heavenly grace flows into the soul; as the sun of its own accord enlightens the dark corners of the earth; as an over-flowing fountain offers its waters to any who will use them; or as the refreshing dews descend unasked upon the thirsty meadows. When once the soul of man is brought to acknowledge and consider its heavenly extract, and hath learnt to raise itself above the world, it begins from that moment to enter upon the state for which it believes and apprehends itself created. You, for your part, my Donatus, are already listed a soldier of Christ; your care therefore must only be, to keep within the rules of that profession which you are engaged in, and to practise the virtues which it requires from you. Be diligent in prayer, and in reading the word of God. At some times you must speak with God, at other times he must speak with you. Let him instruct you with his precepts, and form your mind by the guidance of his counsel; the man who is thence enriched, no one can impoverish; he who is filled with the fulness of God, cannot be empty. All the gaudiness and pomp of life will become insipid and jejune to you, when once you

are convinced that your soul should be adorned with the graces of the gospel, and that the house which God hath vouchsafed to make his temple, and in which his Holy Spirit is pleased to take up his abode, should be fitted up to receive him with a concern proportioned to the dignity of the guest expected. Let innocence and righteousness adorn this habitation for him. These are ornaments which no length of time will decay. The embellishments of human art will be soiled and withered with age; nor can any man depend upon the continuance of things which are in their own nature so obnoxious to change. But the beauty, the ornament, the splendor of the house, whereof I have been speaking, will abide, till it shall be renewed with greater advantage, and be clothed with a more durable and better covering.

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MAN AND PERRING, PRINTERS, LEEDS.