at the fame time I complied with her Ladyfhip's request. She faid fhe would come to All-Saints. I told her, that as a phyfician, I must forbid her; as fhe was not well, had lain in fo lately, and as All-Saints was intolerably hot in fummer by the crowd of people. -What can a man preach at the Wells? P. would fay I had no light; the cl-y would fay I was an enthufiaft; the bucks, that I was rigid and old-fashion-.

ed; the ladies, that I was an old fellow, past pleasure myself, and an enemy to it in others and all agree, (P. excepted) that I was a methodift. So that no good would be done. They would agree, that I faid ftriking things, and therefore contributed a little to their amufement. "What will this babler fay?"-Why, he will fay fomething more fpirited than Dr. Humdrum. I fear the face of no man living: it is not fear of them: but my fpirits are

broken

broken by feeing, that my inftructions are difregarded, and that at public places there is too much diffipation to permit of any degree of seriousness : and therefore I keep my breath to cool my pottage. - Mrs. * (the great wit of the age) complimented me t'other day by faying,-" Give me leave, Dr. STON HOUSE, to ask you, when we are to be benefitted by your inftructions?" My reply was that"my expectations of benefitting were at fo very low an ebb, as in a manner to make me give over all hopes of doing good, and that I should decline preaching at the Wells this feafon.”--It was not a very polite answer, but a She (as fhe has a large fortune) fuppofed I fhould have immediately answered, "Whenever you please, Madam, to defire it."-But I knew she had no feriousness in her; but merely curiofity prompted her, which I was

true one.

not

not disposed to gratify, and fo we part

ed.

At Cheverel and at All-Saints, it is my duty to preach; but I diflike, greatly diflike, at my time of life, being made a raree-fhow of at Bath, the Wells, &c. hopeless of doing good.. God knows the fincerity of my heart, when I fay, that (old as I am, and weak as I am) I would preach from. January to December daily, had I proper opportunities, and a prospect of being useful.

You are certainly in a sphere of usefulness, refpected and heard with great attention.

**

may be an inftance to the contrary. However, fo long as he comes to church, and fits.

under the means of grace, he may be

impressed, when we least expect it. We are to guard against him, and pray to God for him. "Be wife as ferpents," take care he does not hurt

you:

" but be harmless as doves," you : have no intention or defire of hurting him, further than the hurt fuch a flanderer may receive by our just and neceffary defence of ourselves. This is truly chriftian conduct. People may difregard us, and calumniate us as minifters; but let us do our duty, and be faithful to God amidst a generation of unkind and faithless men. Remember what MILTON fays of Abdiel, at the conclufion of the fifth book of his Paradife Loft:

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Among the faithless, faithful only HE. 46 Among innumerable false, unmov'd, "Unfhaken, unfeduc'd, unterrify'd, "His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal : "Nor number, nor example with him wrought "To fwerve from truth, or change his conftant mind,

I lately preached on this text, "Be ye ftedfaft, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing,

knowing, that your labour is not in vain in the Lord." (1 Cor. xv. 58.)

What a pitiable object muft Mr. ** be! old, paralytic, and a stranger, I fear, to the only confolations he can have the confolations of the gofpel.

"See how the world its veterans rewards."

Not fo our Mafter. When the true chriftian dies, he properly begins to live. How different the ferene and peaceful end of your aged relation: in whofe death there was every circumftance to reconcile her friends to it. God grant that " our laft end may be like her's !"

I had a letter to-day from Mr. ORTON, who has been very ill, and is breaking up apace. -"I have, fays he, too much fear and anxiety about the great remove; a weak faith, a wavering hope, and many painful doubts. Give me the kind affiftance of