himself and his good intentions to the same Almighty Parent, and engages his aid and protection through the uncertainties of futurity. At length his course is run, his probation is over; and he feels himself entering upon his "eternal and exceeding great reward," the bosom of his God. Unmixed, indeed, with some of the frailties, the failings, and the evils, incident to human nature, no such character has been found among mere mortals; but of multitudes, such have been the habitual disposition and conduct; a disposition gradually formed by the mild yet efficacious operation of Christianity, and to which millions have in every age and country made nearer or more humble approaches; thus increasing the mass of virtue and peace in the world, and securing to themselves a proportionate part in that state of future bliss which we are assured exceeds all that it hath ever 66 entered into the heart of man to conceive." To set off, then, the real superiority in true wisdom, as well as in true felicity, of the humblest Christian over the most successful man of the world, needs there any declamation on the contrast? Or can affection form a wish more comprehensive of good than this- That my friend may, in the knowledge, the practice, and the consolations of Christianity, find at once an animating principle to the pursuit of his useful and benevolent labours, and an adequate (present as well as future) reward of them? So wishes, so prays, Yours, &c. ON LIBERTINISM. AMONG the multitudes of men of liberal education and cultivated minds, with which the higher and middling classes of modern Society abound, numbers are certainly to be found possessed not only of the amiable, but also of the estimable qualities of the heart and mind; many whose conduct is not swayed merely by the opinion of the fashionable World, but is generally influenced by the dictates of Integrity and Benevolence. Nor can it be denied that thus much may, in a considerable degree, be asserted of many who are disposed to regard the practice of promiscuous Concubinage rather in the light of a frailty than of a vice, because it does not, in their opinion, partake of the offensive nature of fraud or oppression, nor of any other flagrant deviation from the great laws of Justice and Bene |