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Rh formed to adore. The Author of all good continually calls himelf, a God long-uffering; and thoe mot reemble him who practie forbearance. Love and compaion are the mot delightful feelings of the oul, and to exert them to all that breathe is the wih of the benevolent heart. To truggle with ingratitude and elfihnes is grating beyond expreion: and the ene we have of our weaknes, though ueful, is not pleaant. Thus it is with us, when we look for happines, we meet with vexations: and if, now and then, we give way to tendernes, or any of the amiable paions, and tate pleaure, the mind, trained beyond its usual