. The works of the Reverend and learned Mr. Henry Grove, of Taunton : containing all the sermons, discourses, and tracts published in his life time . ve and friend-fhip, you will not find it till you come tothe region of the blefted, where happinefs,like a refrefhing ftream, flows from heart toheart in an endlefs circulation, and is pre-ferved fweet and untainted by the is old advice, if you have a favour to re-queft of any one, to obferve the fofteft timesof addrefs, when the foul, in a flufh of goodhumour, takes a pleafure to (hew itfelf plea-fed. Perfons confcious of their own int
. The works of the Reverend and learned Mr. Henry Grove, of Taunton : containing all the sermons, discourses, and tracts published in his life time . ve and friend-fhip, you will not find it till you come tothe region of the blefted, where happinefs,like a refrefhing ftream, flows from heart toheart in an endlefs circulation, and is pre-ferved fweet and untainted by the is old advice, if you have a favour to re-queft of any one, to obferve the fofteft timesof addrefs, when the foul, in a flufh of goodhumour, takes a pleafure to (hew itfelf plea-fed. Perfons confcious of their own inte-grity, fatisfied with themfelves, and theircondition, and full of confidence in a fu-preme Being, and the hope of immortality, y 4 furvey 3i8 0« Benevolence. furvcy all about them with a flow of good-will. As trees which like their foil, theyfhoot out in expreffions of kindnefs, andbend beneath their own precious load, tothe hand of the gatherer. Now if the mindbe not thus eafy, it is an infallible fign thatit is not in its natural ftate. Place the mindin its right pofture, it will immediately dis-cover its innate propenflon to beneficence^. ESSAY III. On Novelty. —Dulcique animos novitate tenebo. Ov. Met. L. i. Mr. Spectator, WHEN I have feen young Pufs play-ing her wanton gambols, and v^itha thoufand antick fhapes exprefs her owngaiety at the fame time that (he moved mine,while the oldGrannum hath fat by with a modexemplary gravity, unmoved at all that paft,it hath made me refledl what fhould be theoccafion of humours fo oppollte in twocreatures, between whom there was no vi-fible difference but that of age -, and I havebeen able to refolve it into nothing elfe butthe force of novelty. In every fpecies of creatures, thofe whohave been lead time in the world appear,beft pleafed with their condition : for, befidesthat to a new comer the world hath a frefh-nefs on it that ftrikes the fenfe after a moflagreeable manner, Being itfelf, unattended with any 320 On Novelty. any g
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