to make fome return for it. It is their duty, then, to lay hold on the glorious opportunity. Few parents live long enough to receive from their children that rational and fincere obedience which they have merited from them. They fow early, and reap late; and therefore, doubtless, more abundant should be the harvest.'

In the fecond duty, of parents to children, on this text, parents, provoke not your children to wrath, &c. what he obferves with regard to that guilty partiality which we so often meet with, is well worthy of our attention.

• But there is another method of provoking children to wrath, where the refentment on one fide is highly warrantable, and the injury on the other to the laft degree inexcufable; and that is, the partial affection of a parent for one child, in preference to others, equally deferving of it; this is acting in direct oppofition, both to the will and to the conduct of our Almighty Father, who, in his difpenfations towards man, teacheth another and a better leffon: the children of nature all divide his tenderness, all fhare his equal love, without partiality, prejudice, or diftinction: we should follow his fteps, and imi tate his juftice. Nothing but a fuperior fhare of duty and obedience, can lay claim to fuperior favour and indulgence: no external beauty of form, however ftriking; no natural accomplishments, however excellent; no pre-eminence of genius, talents and abilities, however brilliant and engaging; fhould have fuch weight in the fcale of parental love, as to deftroy that equal ballance which should be ever held with a steady and unfhaken hand. When this is once loft, the foundations of domeftic happinefs are undermined; ftrife, divifion and animofity ufurp the feats of harmony and peace; and where jealoufy and hatred are thus early fown, they generally shoot up into a rank and fruitful harvest of guilt and mifery. When children find it impoffible to pleafe, they will naturally lofe all defire of pleafing; where they are neglected, they will neglect; and where they are injured, they will refent. These, and a thousand other ill confequences, which it is unneceffary to enumerate, will inevitably flow from the partial diftribution of parental tenderness: and yet there is fcarce a large and numerous family to be met with, where this evil is not in fome meafure feen, felt, and lamented.'

The following remarks of our ingenious author, and which we do not remember to have seen in any other writers on this subject, may convey an inftructive leffen to avaritious parents.

There is (fays he) another branch of parental duty, the omiflion of which muft provoke children to wrath; and that is, not only to bequeath to them their due patrimony, not C 3 only

only to provide for their future eafe and happiness, but to promote by every method in their power, their present and immediate welfare: to adminifter to their neceffities, and relieve their distress, to double every comfort, and leffen every calamity. The inheritance, which we leave our children, is no more than a debt which we owe to nature, and which juftice demands of us there is very little merit in parting with that which we can no longer retain: pofthumous charity and generofity, therefore of this, as of every other kind, is of no finall value or esteem. It often happens, that parents bequeath large eftates, after their deaths, to children, whom they had kept in the utmost penury all their lives, and with hold every thing from their family, till the hand of God wrefts it from them: and what is generally the confequence of this? the children are provoked, and juftly provoked, to wrath: the omiflion of duty on one part produces a neglect of it on the other; the bonds of mutual affection are gradually loofened and unwoven to the warmth of love and tendernefs, fucceed coldness and indifference; those who stand in need of support and affistance, and at the same time think they have a right to it, will be greatly hurt and difappointed, when it is unkindly with held from them inftead of praying for the continuance of their parents life, they are tempted, but too often, to look forwards with fecret fatisfaction, towards the diffolution of it and where indeed, there is penury, diftrefs and refentment on one fide, with affluence, avarice and inhumanity on the other, all the aid, which filial affection, morality and religion can afford, will fometimes prove ineffectual. If parents, therefore, hope for love, tenderness, and obedience from their children, they muft, as long as they live, in proportion to their circumftances and abilities, affift, fupport, and relieve them: we must love, in fhort, if we expect to be loved; we muft give pleasure and fatisfaction, if we expect to receive them; we must look up, in this, as in every other point of duty, to the great ftandard of perfection, the tender, affectionate, univerfal Parent, the Creator and Father of mankind; He deals forth his bounties to all his children, with a liberal and impartial hand; directs them by his council, guards them by his providence, and fupports them by his power; guides, inftructs, and affifts them here, and encourages them in the practice of duty and obedience, by the unalienable reverfion of a noble inheritance hereafter.'

In the fermon on the duty of masters to fervants, the reader will meet with very pertinent remarks, and falutary advice; which we should be glad to fee followed by the people of faShion and quality in this kingdom.

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Thofe (fays he) who in their earlier years have been oppreffed by want and penury, are feldom bleft with the advantages of a good and liberal education; their ideas are confined in a very narrow circle, their minds often biaffed towards evil, by habit and cuftom, and kept in total ignorance and darkness, from the want of opportunities to improve: a mafter, therefore, if he hath leifure and capacity, should endeavour to open and enlighten them, he should teach them their duty, both towards God and towards man; inftru&them in that religion, which he himself profeffeth; and explain thofe doctrines by which he regulates his own conduct and behaviour. And that he may the better perform this important tafk, his advice must be ftrengthened by his life, and his precepts enforced by his example. It becometh all men, no

doubt, and above all men it becometh chriftians, to be cautious and prudenten their behaviour; to attend the house of God, and perform every act of piety and devotion, with that decency and folemnity which they require; but, to the mafter of a family, thefe obligations are, every one of them, more cogent and more binding. When a man hath once taken upon him this important office (for fo it is) the circle of his duties. is then enlarged, and extends itself on every fide: it is then incumbent on him, to let no bad examples, much lefs his own, influence the lives and manners of those he is placed over: he is the chief actuating spring which is to direct the whole machine: he is the head, and when that is out of order, the members will no longer perform their office, and all the frame is in immediate danger of diffolution: he is to be a pattern to them in every word and work: he, therefore, fhould be careful, that not a word pafs his lips, which is immodeft or profane, idle or ridiculous; that not an action be attributed to him that is evil, left they call in his wickedness to countenance their folly, his authority and example to give a fanction to their guilt.

• When fervants fee their mafters living in a continued fcene of riot, madnefs and debauchery, in open contempt and defiance of God's laws, is it probable, that they themfelves fhould any longer pay the leaft regard to them? will they give ear to thofe doctrines which their mafters contemn, that religion which they despise, or that Redeemer which they ridicule and fcoff at ?

Nothing, I believe, hath fo much tended to the corruption and depravity of the age we live in, as the bad examples of the rich and great amongst us: vice had, perhaps, as many followers in the days of our forefathers as in our own, but then it must be acknowledged, they did not enter so pub

licly and openly into her fervice: the rich and powerful, were at all times, and in all ages, licentious and extravagant; but they had the modefty, at leaft, to avoid the appearance of it.

What the effects of a conduct directly oppofite to this, muft inevitably be, we need not foretel; but certain it is, that the bad example of the great, hath fo far influenced their inferiors, that the follies, which once confined themselves to courts and palaces, are to be found even in the cottages of the poor, and the majority of fervants are almost as vicious as their mafters.'

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The two laft difcourfes on the duty of wives to husbands, and hufbands to wives, are perhaps the best part of this little volume, and feem to have been written, as the Italians fay, con The rules laid down in them are indeed fo instructive, and the obfervations fo juft, that we think no young perfons of either fex, inclined to fet out for the land of matrimony, fhould venture to proceed without fo useful a monitor. We would recommend them, therefore, as proper furniture for the ftudies and toilets of all grown gentlemen and ladies, to teach them the art of becoming good husbands and wives: in the mean time, we will prefent them with a couple of small pictures out of Mr. Francklin's cabinet, which we would advise them to copy as exactly as poffible.

THE GOOD WIFE.

The good wife is one, who ever mindful of the folemn contract which the hath entered into, is strictly and confcientiously virtuous, conftant, and faithful to her husband; chaste, pure, and unblemished in every thought, word, and deed; the is humble and modeft from reafon and conviction, fuomiffive from choice, and obedient from inclination; what the acquires by love and tenderness, the preferves by prudence and difcretion: the makes it her bufinefs to ferve, and her pleasure to oblige her husband; as confcious, that every thing which promotes his happiness, muft in the end, contribute to her own: her tenderness relieves his cares, her affections foftens his diftrefs, her good humour and complacency leffen and fubdue his affliction: he openeth her mouth, as Solomon says, with wifdom, and in her tongue is the law of kindness: fhe looketh well to the ways of her husband, and eateth not the bread of idleness: ber children rife up and call her blessed: her husband alfo, and he praifeth ber. Laftly, as a good and pious chriftian, the looks an eye of gratitude to the great difpenfer and difpofer of all things, to the hufband of the widow, and father of the fatherJefs, intreating his divine favour and affiftance in this and every other moral and religious duty: well fatisfied, that if the duly

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THE GOOD HUSBAND.

The good husband is one, who, wedded not by intereft but by choice, is conftant as well from inclination as from principle he treats his wife with delicacy as a woman, with tenderness as a friend; he attributes her follies to her weakness, her imprudence to her inadvertency; he paffes them over therefore with good-nature, and pardons them with indulgence: all his care and industry are employed for her welfare; all his ftrength and power are exerted for her fupport and protection; he is more anxious to preferve his own character and reputation, because her's is blended with it: laftly, the good husband is pious and religious, that he may animate her faith by his practice, and enforce the precepts of chriftianity by his own example that, as they join to promote each other's happinefs in this world, they may unite to infure eternal joy and felicity in that which is to come.'

Upon the whole, we fincerely congratulate the ingenious author on his fuccefs, and the public on the acquisition of fo valuable a performance: it is an excellent family book, and if carefully read and attended to, may be of more service to fociety than all the cafuiftical and controverfial divinity that has been published in a whole century,

II. Advice to the People in general, with Regard to their Health: But more particularly calculated for those, who, by their Distance from regular Physicians, or other very experienced Practitioners, are the most unlikely to be feafonably provided with the beft Advice and Afiftance, in acute Difeafes, or upon any fudden inward or outward Accident; with a Table of the most cheap, yet effectual Remedies, and the plaineft Directions for preparing them readily: Tranflated from the French Edition of Dr. Tiffot's Avis au Peuple, &c. Printed at Lyons, with all his own Notes, a few of bis medical Editor's at Lyons, and feveral occafional Notes, adapted to this English Tranflation, by J. Kirkpatrick, M. D. 8vo. Pr. 6s. Becket.

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R. Tiffot's chara&er in medicine is fo high, and his works are fo generally known by all the profeffors of that art, that we need not premife any thing by way of general encomium. This book is dedicated to the prefident and counsellors of the chamber of health of the city and republic of Berne. In

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