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102 comfort here, and happines hereafter, depends upon it.

Principles of religion hould be fixed, and the mind not left to fluctuate in the time of ditres, when it can receive uccour from no other quarter. The conviction that every thing is working for our good will carcely produce reignation, when we are deprived of our dearet hopes. How they can be atisfied, who have not this conviction, I cannot conceive; I rather think they will turn to ome worldly upport, and fall into folly, if not vice. For a little refinement only leads a woman into the wilds of mance,