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Rh of Heaven with Patience, Humility and Reignation. This Man was to dye at Seven Years end, unles he could bring to pas a thing Impoible. Now ooner or later, (and which of the Two is uncertain,) we are all of us to dye. Why are we not as Sollicitous now for the Certainty of the Thing, as for the Appointment of the Time, when a Thouand Accidents may interpoe to divert the one, and the other is wholly inevitable?

O Morrow (ays the Curate) is to be Celebrated the Feat of Epiphany: 1 do not know whether the Saint be a Man or a Woman; but the Day however is to be oberved with Great Solemnity.