are at their Prayers.-And this you may do all the Days of your Life.

Ind. Pray will you fhew me my Duty towards my Neighbour?'

Mil. When you come next, I will endeavour to explain it fully to you ;-In the mean time pray to God to enable you to perform your Duty to him.

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The PRAYER.

Racious God, who alone art worthy of all our Service, grant that I may ferve and please Thee according to my Duty, with all my Heart and Strength;That I may give Thee Thanks, and do Thee Honour; and that continuing in the Faith, and Fear, and Love of God, unto my Life's End, I may be made by Him eternally happy, thro' the Merits of Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

DIALOGUE XVI.

The Duty towards our NEIGHBOUR

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explain'd.

Indian.

Am come now to beg That you would teach me my Duty towards my Neighbour."

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Miff. Your Duty to your Neighbour is, To love him as yourself, and to do unto all Men as you would they should do unto you; love, and honour, and fuccour your Father and Mother; to honour and obey the King, and all that are put in Authority under him;-to fubmit yourself to. all your Governors, Teachers, Spiritual Paftors and Masters; to order yourself lowly and reverently to all your Betters ;-to hurt nobody by Word or Deed;

-to be true and just in all your Dealings;to bear no Malice nor Hatred in your Heart; to keep your Hands from Picking and Stealing,-your Tongue from Evil-speaking, Lying, and Slandering to keep your Body in Temperance, Sobernefs, and R Chastity;

Chaftity; -not to covet or defire other Mens Goods, but to learn and labour to get your. own Living, and to do your Duty in that State of Life, unto which it fhall please God to call you.

Ind. Now, Sir, if it would not be too much Trouble, I would beg you would explain to me that Love which Chriftians owe to themfelves, and to their Neighbour, that is, as you told me, all Mankind.'

Milf. In the First place obferve,-That this is a Rule to fuch only as first love and fear God:--Thou shalt love thy Neighbour, as Men fearing God love themselves; that is,

to do to others as we think they ought to do: to us in the like Cafe."

Now God being the God and Father of Mankind, he would have every one to be fe cure in his Life and Eftate, eafy in his Mind, good and holy while he lives, and happy. when he dies. For this Reafon he has given. this Command,-Thou shalt love thy Neighbour as thyfelf-which, if truly obferved, would have a moft happy and bleffed Effect, and be a Direction to the most unlearned,

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how to behave himself to others, fo as to please God *.

Ind. You will, I hope, explain this a little more particularly.'

Miff. Confult then your own Reafon, and you will acknowlege the Justice of this Com mand-That Men fhould love and deal with others as fincerely as they would have others to love and deal with them :-And that they fhould do nothing which they themselves would condemn as hard and unjuft, if done by another Perfon.

For Example;-your own Defire is, that all fhould refpect and love you ;-that none fhould opprefs, wrong, or deal deceitfully with. you;should take Advantage of your Ignorance or Neceffities;or fhould take tedious, Spiteful, or expenfive Ways to keep you from your Rights. You would have nobody to bear Malice, or imagine Evil in their Hearts against you :-You are concerned for. your own good Name and Credit ;-you grieve to be defpiled by thofe above you, as well as, to be difregarded by your Inferiors;- you' earnestly delire your own Welfare and ProSperity, and Peace of Mind, and Health of Body. Now as you, and every Man living. is thus affected towards himfelf, fo will every Man living be condemned by God, and his own Confcience, who does not thus Rom. xiii. 10.

deal with others, and act by this short and plain Rule.

Men cannot live without the Affistance and Support of one another.Their Governors protect them.-The Concern of Parents for their Children,-the Care of Mafters for their Servants, the Account that Paftors muft give of their Flock, are great and neceffary; and if all these are not bonoured and obeyed, the World would every Day grow more and more wild and wicked, and we ourfelves, as well as others, fhould be Sufferers, and miferable.

Ind. Are Chriftians obliged to love those that do not love them ?'

Mill. Yes, moft certainly, or they are no better than Unbelievers ;-for these love thofe that love them.-But God fo loved us when we were Enemies to him by our evil Deeds, as to give his only begotten Son to die for us; and therefore he most reafonably requires, that we should love one another.

Ind. How may we attain to fuch a Chri• ftian Temper?'

Mill. You must take all Occafions of wishing well, and doing Good, to others, continually exercifing your Compaffion by relieving the Poor, helping fuch as are in Diftrefs, comforting the Afflicted, and mourning with them that mourn; which will sweeten

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