Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: knows the obligations of every relation in life: He fees, in their full light, the reciprocal duties of parents and children, of hufbands and wives, of neighbours and fellow-fervants. He knows the aggravated guilt of every offence againft thefe ties of fociety, however we may be difpofed to treat them as trifles: and every piece of ftubbornnefs and pride, of ill humour and paffion, of anger and re- fentment, of fullennefs and perverfe- nefs, expofes us to His juft indignation. MONDAT. ( 9 ) MONDAY. BLESSED ARE THEY THAT DO HUNGER AND THIRST AFTER RIGHTEOUSNESS. R Lord and Suviour has pronounced this blefiednefs, and through his Grace, I hope to partake of it. Hunger and Thirft, naturally prompt us to feek, without delay, the means of iatisfying them. What then is the food of the mind? Wholefome in- ftruclion, and religious meditation. If, then, I fincerely do hunger and thirft after Righteoufnefs, I Cull be frequently feeding my mind with pious books and thoughts; I fhall make the returns of thefe meals as A 5 reguregular as I can, and feldom fliall I find any neceffity ftrong enough to make me mifs them a whole day together. But then it ought to be remembered too, that even thefe, the beft hours of my life, ought never to encroach upon the duties and employment of my Ration, whatever they may be. Am 1 in a fuperior ftation in life ? My duty then probably takes in a large compafs; and I am accountable to my Maker for all thofe talents entrufted with me by him, for the benefit of my fellow- creatures. I nmft not think of living to myfelf alone, or devoting that time to imitate the employment of Angels, which was given me for the fcrvice of men. Religion muft be my chief end, and my beft delight: It muft regulate all I think, or do, MONDAY… II but whatever m…