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tain a remiffion of their fins, who are really grieved by a reflection on their paft offences, and who fincerely feek forgiveness and reconciliation. "I came not," fays our Saviour, call the righteous, but finners to repentance." "Come unto me all ye who are heavy laden, and I will ease you;"" for at what time foever a finner fhall repent him of his fins from the bottom of his heart, I will blot out all his wickedness from my remembrance, faith the Lord:" "for the Lord is full of compaffion and mercy, flow to anger, and of great kindness." Patients of all defcriptions, by listening to and ftudying doctrines like these, of which the word of God is full, may restore their dejected minds to quietude and comfort, and, by amending their future lives, rejecting their miserable attachments to VICE, and adopting the practice of VIRTUE, become regenerate and happy for, as the angel opened the iron gates to Peter, loofed his bands, brought him out of prifon, and delivered him from bodily thraldom, fo will PIETY and VIRTUE release their afflicted minds from the wickednefs, the weaknefs, and the errors of ATHEISM, IDOLATRY, and SUPERSTITION; and reftore them to that transcendent felicity, which every good mind derives from the study and practice of THE TRUE

RELIGION,

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OF RELIGIOUS MELANCHOLY.

These purer thoughts, from gross alloys refin'd,
With heavenly raptures elevate the mind:
Not fram'd to raise a giddy, short-liv'd joy,
Whose false allurements, while they please, destroy;
But bliss resembling that of saints above,
Sprung from the vision of Almighty love:
Firm, solid bliss; for ever great and new ;

The more 'tis known, the more admir'd as TRUE.

A

ABSENCE, when unneceffary, or long delayed,
inspires a lover's mind with jealousy, 312; ab-
folutely necessary to the conquest of improper
love, 337.

Abftinence described, 51, 52; its effects in subduing
heroic love, 334.

Achilles, his love for Deidamia an inftance of the
dangers of conference, 253.

Aden in Arabia Felix, its intenfe heat, 56.
Adverfity, how borne by different tempers, 8.
Adultery, the impious and horrid nature of this
crime, 348, 349.

Affections, thofe of the heart not eafily controlled,
- ვ61.

Air, under what circumstances it occafions melan-
choly, 54; its efficacy in removing it, 181.
Alexander, his grief on the death of Hepheftion,
162.

Ambition described, 107; the flavery it occafions,
108; inftances of it, 109; how it fhews itself in
melancholy minds, 171.

Anacreon's address to the grasshopper, 22; to his

mistress, 296,

Angelica,

Angelica, the power of her ring, 271, Note.
Anger induces melancholy by means of forrow,
94; its confequences, 96, 98; how beft fub-
dued in a husband, 330.

Antiochus and Stratonice, the ftory of their mar-
riage, 273.

Aretine, his profligate character, 144.

Ariftophanes, his malice defeated by the good fenfe
of Socrates, 221.

Atheifm, its character and confequences, 377, 378.
Avarice, a frequent impediment to nuptial happi-
nefs, 359.

B

Ballad-making a symptom of love, 302.
Banifhment, how to be confidered, 213.

Banns, a proposal that they should be universal,
374.

Batchelors always fighing for matrimony, 352;
unhappy in the midst of their imaginary happi-
nefs, 367.

Bathing, its utility, 184.

Bawds, their dangerous and detestable characters,
268.

Beauty, its dangers, 227, 230, 233; its extraor◄

dinary powers, 237, 238; its proper office,
240; the good policy of avoiding the fight of
it, 338; not to be preferred before merit, 351,
352.

Birth, the importance of being well born, 35;
Bafeness of, ought not to affli&t the mind, 204;
its inequality ought not to impede the matrimo-
nial union, 358.

Bleeding, when neceffary, 335.

Blindness a fymptom of heroic love, 289; an ex-
traordinary, inftance of it, 291.

Brachmans, how they preferved their continence,
333, 334.

Brain, how affected by melancholy, 19; difficulty
of restoring it when affected, 173.

Bribes, how employed in the affairs of love, 265.

C

Calumny, how it galls the feelings and dejects the
mind, 143.

Caprice frequently ends in difappointment, 355.
Care defcribed, 99; its origin, 100; its preva-
lency, 101.

Caufes must be searched before effects can be re-
moved, 30; of melancholy fometimes fuperna-
tural, 31.

Caffandra, a temple of that name in Italy for de-
formed maids, 326.

Centaurs defcribed, 50.

Charles the Fifth, the caufes of his melancholy,
37, Note; a ftory of his extraordinary fond-
nefs for a female favorite, 251.

Children