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( 13 ) 79. Contentment without the world, is better than the world without contentment.

80. Either praying will make a man leave off ſinning, or ſinning, will make him leave off praying.

81. Make the Sabbath the market-day for thy ſoul.

82. What we win by prayer, we ſhall wear with comfort.

83. The Sabbath is not a day to feaſt our bodice, but our ſouls.

84. He that eyes a providence, ſhall always have a providence to eye.

85. No worldly thing ſeems great, to him that minds eternity.

86. None can make a Chriſtian, but he that made the world.

87. The late lady Stormont, ſen. mother of the late Lord Chief Juſtice Mansfield, upon being complimented by another lady, that “ ſhe had the three fineſt ſons in Scotland to be " proud of;" made anſwer ' No, madam; I have much to be thankful for, but nothing to be proud of.'

88. Don't you teach the Bible, but let the Bible teach you.

89. Every perſon, that ſits under the ſound of the goſpel, ſhould ask himſelf theſe three queſtions: “ Do I know any thing of the excellency of the goſpel?-Do I feel the power of it-And, do I live according to the rules of it?"

90. A good woman uſed to ſay, that " a family without prayer is like an houſe without a roof; expoſed to all the injuries of weather, and to every form that blows."

91. Euclid (the diſciple of SOCRATES) having offended a brother of his, the brother cried out in a rage, “ let me die, if I'm not reveng'd on you, one time or other." To whom Euclid replied, with a ſweetneſs next to Chriſtian, " and let me die, if I don't ſoften you by my kindneſſes, and make you love me as well as ever."