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 amongst them who should plague me most. One called mo [sic] a Parson; another, a Methodist; a third, a conceited Prig; a fourth, a canting Hypocrite. If I went into any other gentleman's kitchen it was all the same; my character flew before me, and many were the jests and laughs raised both at home and abroad at my expence. In short, during threothree [sic] months, my life was a constant anxiety and torment; so that at last I was almost tempted, God forgive me for the thought, to do as they did, and forfeit my everlasting soul in order to avoid the present uneasiness. But while things were in this state, I felt myself greatly and unexpectedly relieved one Sunday morning by a Sermon which I happened to hear from our parish minister, on tho following text: 'Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil of you falsely for my sake, for great is your reward in heaven.' The excellent discourse which this pious man delivered on thesothese [sic] words was so exaetlyexactly [sic] suited to my eireumstancescircumstances [sic] and feelings, that it seemed as if it had been addressed solely to me; and it pleased God so to apply what had been said to my heart and understanding, that I not only determined to bear in future the sneers and scoffs of my fellow-servants with patience and fortitude, but even those very sneers which I formerly considered as my greatest calamity, were now no longer grievous. From this time, therefore, my uneasiness was pretty well at an end. And I earnestly recommend it to all other servants, who have been so happy as to acquire sober and virtuous habits, not to suffer themselves to be laughed out of their sobriety and virtue by thothe [sic] jests and ridicule of their fellow-servants. They may depend upon it that their cause is a good