RELIGION.

:

Effects of

When the pulse beats high, and we are flushed with youth, and health, and vigour; when all goes on prosperously, and success seems almost to anticipate our wishes, then we feel not the want of the consolations of religion but when fortune frowns, or friends forsake us ; when sorrow, or sickness, or old age comes upon us, then it is that the superiority of the pleasures of religion is established over those of dissipation and vanity, which are ever apt to fly from us when we are most in want of their aid. A Practical View of Christianity. W. WILBERFORCE.

RELIGION. Fanatics in

Fanatics have pleased their fancies these late years, with turning and tossing and tumbling of religion, upward and downward, and backward and forward; they have cast and contrived it into a hundred antic postures of their own imagining. However, it is now to be hoped, that after they have tired themselves out with doing nothing but only trying and tampering this and that way to no purpose, they may at last retire and leave religion in the same condition wherein they found it. Mixt Contemplations on these Times, XLVI. THOMAS FULLER.

REPENTANCE.

Repentance is not dated.

Emblems, Book II. 13.-FRANCIS QUARLES.

REPENTANCE.

What is past is

past.

There is a future left to all

men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to

atone.

REPENTANCE.

The Lady of Lyons, Act IV. Scene I.
E. B. LYTTON.

Definitions of

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done, as the fear of consequences.

Maxims, CCCLXXXIV.-ROCHEFOUCAULT.

From the sun's searching power can vagrant planets rove?

How then can wandering man fall wholly from God's love?

Still from each circle's point to the centre lies a track; And there's a way to God from furthest error back. Strung Pearls.-RUCKERT.

REPUBLICS and MONARCHIES.

A commonwealth and a king are no more contrary than the trunk or body of a tree and the top branch thereof; there is a republic included in every monarchy. Mixt Contemplations on these Times, XLV. THOMAS FULLER.

REPUTATION.

Whatever ignominy we may have incurred, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our reputation. Maxims, CCCLXXXVI.-ROCHEFOUCAULT.

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RESIGNATION.

Dark clouds and stormy cares whole years o'ercast, But calm my setting day, and sunshine smiles at last : My vices punish'd and my follies spent,

Not loth to die, but yet to live content,

I rest.

RESOLUTION.

you

The Parish Register.-G. CRABBE.

Would touch a nettle without being stung by it; take hold of it stoutly. Do the same to other annoyances, and hardly will anything annoy you.

REST.

Guesses at Truth.—JULIUS and Augustus Hare.

Home of true

But never, in the mire of troubled streams,

Swell'd by wild torrents from the mountain's

breast,

But on the still wave's mirror, the soft beams

Of happy sunshine rest.

The Poet to his Friends.-SCHILLER.

REST. Longing for

Yet, lurks a wish within my breast
For rest-but not to feel 'tis rest.
Soon shall my fate that wish fulfil ;

And I shall sleep without the dream
Of what I was, and would be still,

Dark as to thee my deeds may seem:

My memory now is but the tomb

Of joys long dead; my hope, their doom:
Though better to have died with those

Than bear a life of lingering woes.

REST.

True

The Giaour, Line 1000,-LORD BYRON.

True rest consists not in the oft revying
Of worldly dross;

Earth's miry purchase is not worth the buying;
Her gain is loss

;

Her rest but giddy toil, if not relying

Upon her cross.

How worldlings droil for trouble! that fond breast That is possess'd

Of earth without a cross, has earth without a rest.

Emblems, Book 1. 6.-FRANCIS QUARLES.

RESURRECTION after Death.

All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom

The sun himself must die,

Before this mortal shall assume

Its immortality!

The Last Man.-THOMAS CAMPBELL.

RESURRECTION.

The

At the round earth's imagined corners blow
Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise
From death, you numberless infinities
Of souls, and to your scattered bodies go,

All whom the flood did, and fire shall, o'erthrow;
All whom war, death, age, ague's tyrannies,
Despair, law, chance, hath slain; and you, whose

eyes

Shall behold God, and never taste death's woe.

But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space;
For, if above all these my sins abound,
'Tis late to ask abundance of thy grace,
When we are there. Here on this holy ground
Teach me how to repent: for that's as good
As if thou had'st seal'd my pardon with thy blood.
Holy Sonnets, VII.-JOHN DONNE.

RESURRECTION.

Certainty of the

Beside the principles of which we consist, and the actions which flow from us, the consideration of the things without us, and the natural course of variations in the creature, will render the resurrection yet more highly probable. Every space of twenty-four hours teacheth thus much, in which there is always a revolution amounting to a resurrection. The day dies into a night, and is buried in silence and in darkness; in the next morning it appeareth again and reviveth, opening the grave of darkness, rising from the dead of night; this is a diurnal resurrection. As the day dies into night, so doth the summer into winter: the sap is said to descend into the root, and there it lies buried in the ground; the earth is covered with snow, or crusted with frost, and becomes a general sepulchre; when the