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Show ( zS ) are c6nfounded, and the Notions of the Spectators are mified, and their Appl·obatwn attd Cenfure directed to quite wrong Objects. And even where the Play itfelf happens to be harmJefs and modeft, you will not be a whot the more fecure againft Danger, if you frequent the Theatre : For it is well known, that by the Management of thofe moft wicked and debauched of Mankind, the Players, there never fail to be introduced into the moft modeft and virtuous Entertainments of the Stage, rno u~h of lewd and impudent D ances, Songs, or Gefitculations to render inefFeCtual whatever the Author of the Piece may have done to ~tcolnn\ end Virtue or Sobriety in the Play !tfelf.. Befides avoiding thefe and other Tenlptauons to Debauchery it will be of inconceivable Advantage to yo~, f;r prefervi1~g your V irt u_e, that you take care ne\·e~ to g1v~ yourfclf lime to think of any of the tdle or wteked Amufements of Life; but keep your Mind conftan.tly mtent either upon your Bufmefs, or upon omprovmg yourfelf by (orne Piece of ufeful or ornamental Knowledge. Thus I have given you fair Warning of the three grand Temptations you will be expofcd to in Life, by which you wtll be m the moll: Danoer of be ina drawn to neglect your D"ty to yourt"df, to God,, or to your Neighbo~r. As for the vanous Paruculars contamed under each of thefe Heads, you have heard them fo fully handled, and the Practice of them fu 1\rongly recommended to you by me, that I hope yuu both underftand perfectly their Nature and Obligations, and have refolved, by the Grace of God, to continue in the con!\ant Obfervance of thcn1 ( 7<9 ) them to the Etid of your Life. They arc to be found c(l:abliG\eu by Divine Authority, and backed with the moll: awful Sanctions, in the ~o· ta.tions from Scripture, which follow. You know I hove told yon, that beudes the L ight of Nature, which is placed by God in the Breafi of every Man, it feemeJ fit to his unbounded vVifdom and Goodnefs to fend among bewildered, blinded Mortals, the Light of Revelation, to point out to them more clearly their Duty alld the ~ray to Happincfs, whe!l Vice and Immorality had almotf extinguifhed the original Light of Rc~Jon, which is, as well a:s Revelation, the Candle of the Lord. This inefiimable Advantage has been communicatCd tt> Mankind by a Succellion of Men infpired by Heaven, who have appeared in different Ages of the W orld, during a Period of fevcral thourands ofYears, till the coming of J efvs Chrift, the great Light of the World, who finifhed and perfected the whole Schenie of God's merciful Difpenfation to a dark, deluded, and re· bellious Race. And the general Purport of all that has been communicated to Mankind by all the Prophets and infpired Men of Antiquity before our Savioar, and by Himfclf and his. Apo!\lcs, is to teach them this great and impor· tant Leffon, " That O bedience to God, the Creator, Preferver, and Judge of the World, " is the only Way by which any Creature can poffibly attain Happinefs, and that D ifobedience to him wi11, without timely Repentance, " infallibly bt ing upon any Creature total and " final Mifery and Deftruction." That you may at all Times have cle3f and fublime Conceptions of divine Revelation, and have |