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and contrary blafts alarm thy fears, yet re- member the voyage is fhort, and the danger will foon be over!

20. And, although the clouds may gather blacknefs, and thou mayefl be envelloped in the thick mifls of confufion; yet be affured, that if thy feet keep in the high way of virtue, brighter fcenes will yet cheer thy fight, and more ferene profpeds will delight, and ani- mate thy loul.

21. And is it not written in the book of Solomon^ nearly on this wife? That the path of the juft man, like the luminous orb which eulighteneth our hemifphere, fhines with in- creaung refulgency, fplendor and brightnefs, until it arrive to the meridian altitude of a glorious perfeft day!