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Rh Deity, than the indulgence of the paions: though man be not forbid to enjoy the good things of this life, yet an abue of that enjoyment; which evinces his ingratitude to Heaven, is punihed even here be, low, by wating the ungenerous being to an untimely grave---but he who foregoes the pleaures of a fleeting period, through an expectation of permanent happines, and uffers temporary torture in order to obtain endles blis, with a mind all directed to that great Power who gave him exitence, mut, notwithtanding the ridicule of the world, meet with a more favourable entence at his awful tribunal.

Not long before our departure from