you, express your love to them, by paying them the honour and observance their place and authority call for. If they are in worldly respects beneath you, manifest your love by kindness, affability, and granting them an easy access to you. If they excel in natural or acquired endowments of mind, express your love to them by a due esteem of them. If they be rather wanting than excelling, show your love by pitying them, and despise not their weakness. If any be in misery, compassionate them, pray for them, comfort them with your presence if you can reach them, and relieve them according to your power. If any be defamed, show your love by stopping and rebuking the defamation.

II.

Be very careful not to harbour any evil affection in your heart against any person whatever; for, though you are far from intending any actual mischief, yet, you tempt God to let loose your corruption, and his providence to permit an opportunity; and so, ere you are aware, you may be drawn to an act you never before thought of. Besides, by an evil action harboured in your mind, you will prevent the blessed illapses of the Spirit of God, and open a wide door for the entrance of the devil into your soul. And indeed, an unkind disposition towards any man is so much akin to Satan, that, if you admit the one, you cannot exclude the other.

III.

Despise none, for love never rides in triumph over inferiors.

IV.

Look upon all unavoidable temptations as opportunities for a high exercise of grace. Are you injured? Be sorry for him who has done the wrong, and bless God for the opportunity of showing yourself hereby to be a Christian, by patient bearing,

forgiving, doing good against evil, treating your adversary with meekness, and breaking his heart with love. Every provocation is a price in your hand; get an heart to improve it.

V.

Put a due value upon your name and reputation, but be not over solicitous about it; for that discovers some unmortified lust at the bottom.

VI.

Pursue piety under the notion of an imitation of God; and then, so great a pleasure will result from it, that neither men nor devils shall be able to make you question his being and attributes. This notion will raise an esteem of piety, will render it lovely, will make the several duties of religion more free and easy, and will gradually wear out the remains of unbelief, and unkind jealousies of God.

VII.

Let humility be the constant covering of your soul, and let repentance follow all your performances. This will demonstrate your religion is inward; for, if religion be suffered to enter deep into the heart, it will always find work for repentance, while we are in the state of imperfection.

VIII.

Love nothing above God and Christ; for to love any thing more than God or Christ, is the way either never to enjoy it, or to be soon deprived of it, or else to find yourself deceived in it.

IX.

Do nothing upon which you dare not ask God's blessing.

X.

Esteem time as your most precious talent, which

when you bestow it upon any, you give them more than you can understand. All the power of men and angels cannot restore it to you again.

XI.

Never speak of religion for the sake of discourse and entertainment, but for the purpose of piety.

XII.

Upon the Lord's-day, consider in private the love of God in the several instances of it to yourself and the world, in Creation and Redemption, the promises of eternal life, the care of his providences and his mercies to you, your friends and family; and stay upon these considerations, till your heart be lifted up in his praise, and you can say with David, "Now "will I go to God, my exceeding joy." Consider also your miscarriages in the week past, and industriously endeavour to prevent them in the week to

come.

MRS. MARGARET ANDREWS

WAS the only child of Sir Henry Andrews, Bart. and his Lady Elizabeth, of Lathbury, in the county of Bucks. She gave very early signs of piety. The good instructions of her parents, accompanied with the Divine blessing, wrought so soon upon her, that she seemed well inclined as soon as she understood any thing. The buddings of piety showed themselves in the delight she took in prayer, in reading, and hearing her duty, in singing of psalms, in her meekness, in receiving reproof easily. from her parents, and taking warning by it, in her justice, in her hating and carefully avoiding a lie, and in her charity and good inclinations to the poor, and a readiness to supply them.

About the age of seven or eight years, she gave more full and evident signs of a regenerate state, appearing really and constantly solicitous for the welfare of her soul. The pleasure she took in the sacred Scriptures, expressed itself not only in reading them, but by readily getting by heart many psalms and chapters; which she did without much difficulty, for, upon reading a chapter to her mother, she hath presently repeated without book the greatest part of it. In these years of childhood she had also a great respect for good ministers, delighting to hear them pray and preach, and asking questions of them concerning God, and her duty to him. Her charity also was proportionably improved. It was strange to observe how she would inquire into the necessities of poor people, and endeavour to procure them one thing after another, as they signified their want of them.

But it may not be improper particularly to enumerate the several branches of this young person's excellencies; and here we shall mention the following:

:

First Her indifference to the world, and superiority over it, were eminently great. She valued the world and all its glories as little as most persons do their souls, who bestow but few, and it may be no serious thoughts upon them throughout the year, or the whole term of their lives. Her mind was so conversant with heaven and its glories, that, as if being already in the celestial mansions, she looked upon these earthly vanities at a great distance, unworthy of her esteem, and too little to satisfy the enlarged desires of her soul. And the consideration of their meanness made her long after a better inheritance, which would sometimes force a sigh from her; which being once observed by some, and she being asked by them what she sighed for, since she wanted nothing the world could afford her, her reply was: "I want nothing in this world. I do "not sigh for that. But how much better is heaven "than all this!" Then, starting up from her seat and spreading her hands, she added, " O, there are "such joys in heaven as cannot be conceived!" She had a great indifferency to all those gaieties which young ladies so generally admire; for, though she submitted to wear clothes suitable to her age and quality, yet she had too much wise consideration to be puffed up by them. When her parents bestowed any rarities upon her, she received them with very thankful acknowledgments, as tokens of their favour and kindness, which she highly valued; but afterwards would take very little notice of the things themselves. She was once, before the age of twelve years, taken by some friends to see a play; who afterwards expected that she would entertain herself by discoursing upon some passages of it; but not doing this, she was asked, How she liked it? to which she answered, "I like it so, that I <6 never desire to see another." Not that she wanted either wit or memory to observe or retain what might seem most worthy, for she was eminent