outrage the real or imaginary injuries the may receive? Or can fhe kneel before the throne of Mercy, and fupplicate the God of Peace and Good-will to Man, for pardon or protection, while her heart is agitated with a fpirit of malice or revenge towards a ferlow-creature frail as her wretched felf? This were an infult upon piety, a mockery of devotion!

WE are affured that God rejects the proud, and that an humble and contrite heart are precious in his fight. Shall we then caft away the heart

heart-felt transport of thinking ourfelves under the guidance and protection of an Almighty Almighty Providence, to facrifice to Moloch? and give away the birth-right of the redeemed, for the fad privilege of torturing ourfelves? For Providence has wifely ordained, that all the malevolent paffions of the human breaft should prey upon their Peace never dwelt

poffeffors.

with envy, rage, or hate.

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As marriage, among Chriftians, is of divine inftitution, all married

perfons fhould confider a proper E 3

con

conduct towards each other, as the

fulfilling of a religious duty. To

promote barmony, peace, order, and happiness, in their families, is the mutual and undoubted obligation both of man and wife. This rule once established and reduced to practice, even libertines will own that marriage is the happieft ftate on earth; but when the fiends of difcord, rage, confufion, and mifery, ufurp the place of thofe dear Houfhold Gods, their very oppofites, we must agree with Dr. Tillotfon, and own that such a state is

but

but "a leffer hell, in paffage to "the greater.".

Be it your care, then, my gentle and much-interefted Readers, to re verfe this fad idea, and by the mildness of your manners, and the sweetness of your tempers, render the marriage-state a leffer heaven, in paffage to the greater.

NEATNESS.

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EATNESS is the offspring of Decency, and the parent

of Elegance; and to her, perhaps,

are my

fair countrywomen more indebted for the power of making and preferving their conquefts, than to any other of thofe numerous charms which they poffefs in common with the reft of their sex.

Ar this polished era, when elegance, at least as far as it relates to form and drefs, feems to be elevated almost into a fcience, which is become