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OF THE

REV. CHARLES BUCK,

AUTHOR OF THE THEOLOGICAL DICTIONARY.]

CONTAINING

THE YOUNG

Christian's Guide;

VITABLE DIRECTIONS, CAUTIONS, AND EN-
COURAGEMENT, TO THE

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NATURE, EVIDENCES, AND ADVANTAGES,
ARE CONSIDERED.

TOGETHER WITH,

ANECDOTES,

OUS, MORAL, AND ENTERTAINING: ALPHA-
BETICALLY ARRANGED,

AND INTERSPERSED WITH A VARIETY OF

USEFUL OBSERVATIONS.

IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. III.

Philadelphia:

ED AND PUBLISHED BY W. W. WOODWARD,

CORNER OF SECOND AND CHESNUT STREETS.

LIGIOUS, MORAL, AND ENTER

TAINING;

EPING AND INATTENTION IN THE
HOUSE OF GOD.

E may well ask whether such an inconsistvas ever seen in a Pagan temple or a Maan mosque. "He who sleeps in a place rship," says one," is as though he had brought in for a corpse, and the preacher reaching at his funeral." Upon this subcannot help transcribing what has been n by an eminent author. "Constant sleepays he, "are public nuisances, and deserve whipped out of a religious assembly, to they are a constant disgrace. There are who have regularly attended a place of woror seven years, twice a-day, and yet have eard one whole sermon in all the time.

dreamers are a constant distress to their ers. In regard to their health, would any stupid man choose such a place to sleep in? pect to their character, what can be said 4 n, who in his sleep makes mouths and wry and exhibits strange postures; and somesnorts, starts, and talks in his sleep? Where prudence, when he gives such occasion to ous persons to suspect him of gluttony,

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