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 extensive view, and the vallies invite with shelter, fragrance, and flowers.

4. Not only nature but art continually affords us a pleasing variety, and gratifies the love of novelty; thus in many places, the many ingenious and elegant inventions and improvements of curious artists, afford great delight to those who have knowledge and taste for the respective arts, sciences, and manufactures

5. But although the love of novelty should be encouraged, so far as it conduces to social benefit and improvement, yet when it produces unsteadiness to necessary business, or fosters a desultory and fickle disposition, it is certainly reprehensible.

6. Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand; the most valuable persons or things, if they have for a long time appeared amongst us, do not make that impression which they did at first, or which very inferior persons or things that are quite new do. Perhaps it is part of our natural depravity that we should thus unjustly slight what is common though truly excellent; or perhaps it is permitted to shew us that this is an imperfect state, and we shall never be satisfied till we come to heaven.

7. Novelty in religion should not be indulged, such as wandering after new preachers, and seeing new faces; this starves the mind and the devotion, while it feeds curiosity. Many are so fond of novelty, that they would almost leave a paradise to wander in a desart so as to enjoy it.

HOW lovely and how happy is an open and