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 For a Young Gentleman on the Death of his Father

Dear Sir,

I KNOW no part of life more impertinent that the office of adminiſtering conſolation: I w not enter upon u, for I cannot but applaud you grief The virtuous principles you had for thi excellent man whom you have loſt, have wrough in you as they ought to make a youth of three an twenty incapable of comfort, upon coming in the poſſeſſion of a great fortune I doubt not be you will honour his memory by a modeſt enjoyment of his eſtate and ſcorn triumph over his grave by employing in riot excels, and debauchery what he purchaſed, with ſo much injury, prudence, and wiſdom This is the true way to ſhe the ſenſe you have of your loſs, and to take away the diſtreſs of others upon the occaſion You can not recal your father by grief, but you may revive him to your friends by your conduct I am, &c,

From a Gentleman, whoſe Wife was lately dead, to Clergyman in the Neighbourhood.

Reverend Sir,

YOU have often both in public and private, enlarged or thoſe comfort and conſolations which Chriſtianity affords to the afflicted; and if ever the were necceſsary to one under thoſe circumſtances they muſt be to myſelf about ſeven, laſt night my wife died in child bed, and I am left the diſconſolate parent of five young children Had you ſeen the excruciating tortures under which ſhe expired, it would have reminder you of the emphaſi of what curſe pronounced upon our firſt parents for their rebellion againſt God When he ſaw th of terrors approach, ſhe was all reſignation to the divine will, and let this lower world in the ſame