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 the most delicious kind. The tree, being sound at the root, imparts its life and vigour to the branches and fruit; and as all that is good comes from God, so all is referred back again to him; and whether the tree bear the fruit of natural, or spiritual, or of celestial good—whether there be fig, grape, or olive—it is sure to enjoy its own perfect happiness in the garden of the Lord, which is the kingdom of heaven.

N reading the Scriptures, it is to be feared that there is an almost universal neglect of self-application, "Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees," strikes the attention of one; and forthwith he thinks only of those externally devout hypocrites who existed in the days of the Saviour, and, of course, rises up in judgment against them, and condemns them: meantime, the leaven of his own sect troubles not his conscience, except, perhaps, how he may best show off the purity which he conceives his own doctrine to possess, against the impurity of others. "Thou shalt not steal," catches the attention of another; and his reflections are at once turned to the paltry thief confined within the walls of his city prison, perhaps sent thither by himself in his capacity of judicial magistrate: but his own covetousness, his exactions in trade, his doing the best he can for himself without