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 that no man can give a satisfactory answer for neglecting it Certainly we ought statedly to retire, and make some acknowledgements for our daily mercies. Some suspension of common affairs, some p ase of temporal pain and pleasure, is surely necessary to him who del berates for eternity who is forming the only plan in which miscarriage cannot be repaired, and examining the only question in which a mistake cannot be rectified.'

Were we to receive but the smallest token of respect at the hand of some kind earthly friend, we should be ready to make every acknowledgentent in our power; we should feel some pain in recollecting but one opportunity where we might have shewn our thankfulness, but which was then neglected or forgotten. Now if we pretend to be sensible of our obligations to that friend who sticketh closer than a brother, who giveth all things liberally without upbraiding, by what shall we demonstrate the sincerity of these pretensions, if not by yielding that obedience we acknowledge