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Show '' is fimple Intuition. There the Mind will im" mediately, and without the Intervention of '' inftrumental Senfes, behold and'"penetrate into •' Truth. Methinks I even now fee with my " Mind itfelf. Immenfity (eems to !land unveil'' ed before me. And infi nite Perfe8ion fills it. « Stupendous Ocean! Here is fwpe for everlaft'' ing Contemplation. Truth is .Goundlefs. The " ·Obje8 of the Mind unlimited. :Haw dearly " do 1 r.ow fee, that re8itud4 of · Dif\>ofition i" " all in· ;JI/ To be good is to refemble Deity. " Deity is the abftra8 of Gooi:lnefs. To be " (wallowed up in the Immenfity of Perfe8ion; " to be united to unlimited Goodnefs; to im, , prove tor endlef.1 Ages ; to ri(e in every Perfec" tion without Profpe8 , without Poffibility of " ever being at a Stand I 0 glorious Thought ! '' 0 ainazing Nature of Man! 0 adorable Au" thor of fuch a Natu re I Come blelfed Moment! '' Come kind Deliverer from ruinous Vice and " Mifery, whofe Death raifes a guilty World to Life. Receive, 0 my bounteous Creator, the Soul Thou haft made for thyfelf. Long has it panted after Thee. Fill its Defires with thy F ulnefs. Satisfy its Longings with thy Perfection. Eternity will not be fufficient for the En- " joyment of --" Here the heavenly Melody was interrupted, The Pangs of Death hardly gave Time for his Family to fee him, while, he could keep his Eyes open on this W orld. Thus expired the bell: of Men. Were his Example known, and imitated, it might.prove ufeful for faving many from a worfe Death, than that which removed him, at the ripe Age of fixty five, from thi~ World of Guilt and Mifery to the Regions <>f endlefs Peace, I am. &,, following Book, written by the fame Author, J B Mafter of an Academy at Ncwmgton Green, ~iiddlcfex, is fold by Meff. WHISTON and WHITE, Bookfellcrs in Flcctfireet i MILLAR, and WJ LSOd and DuRHAr.J, in the Strand; R _l V tN GT ON ~n FLETCHER, and Mrs. CooPER_, m Pater-no errow; and \Vt.RD in Cornhill, Pnce Bound IOS. 6d. In 0 N E V oL u ME, Qyarto, D edicated to Her Royal Highnefs the Princefs D owager of W A L E s, 11' I Z. The D I GN I TY of HuMAN NATURE)·- o R, f A brief Account of the cect~in and eftablifhed Means for attaiuing the true End of our Exifl:ence. 1 N F 0 U R B 0 0 K S. B o o t: J. Of P R U D E N C E. (!ontain in" a Series of DireCtions fot the proper ConduCI: of Lif~, r,t m the Ji;fi Enrl-.mcc upon ACl:ion, to its Con elution. With Ruie1 for Cnm·crlation, :~~d _the lefs i?lportant Circumlt:~nccs '?f Beh•viour, !hewing the pnn~o:!pal Bea_u_t1cs _and Err?rs, _wh!ch rcn. der Mens ConverfJtion agreeable or dl!guflmg. DueCbons for the fuccefsful Conduct of At[Jirs, accmding to v::rious C,rCllOlJlancer .. Tim~s and Pcrfon:; · and ~cthods of finJing out tb: true Cha .. raclers'of Men, Jndr11ctiuns for proceeding in a judicious Manner in the imp0rtant Concern ~f M.mi:t.ge; ~nd for the proper A-f:tn.agcment of Children, ;:~.ccordtn,; to the1r vanous. nat~ral Turnt :tn.f Te!Tipen, from Inf:mcy to ad~l.t Ag~, an? the1r hc1!1g fe~tlnd in Life. With OiJcCl:ions for ret1rm~ and J1fpofing o1 Efre!h. T o whi;,;h are a lJcd above three hundred Aphor;fms on Prudence .in Cou\'crf.nion and A!tion, Boo< 11. OfKNOWLEDGE, Containing a Plan of Educ.atiou ~rom Infancy,. in Morals, Ul~ in Languages, \Vriting, ArJthmetlc, Math:matJcs, Geography, Principles of Philofophy, and other Accompblhments or~amental and ufe ·ul. With proper Books on each Br~nch of Leanuug. A Scheme of manly Study, vi~. Hiftory, B10.graphy,. Theory. of Government and Law, C~:'mmerce, OeconomLcs, Ethics, Phyf1o .. logy, higher Mathematics, Knowledge of the Btaux Am .ao.J Bellfs Lmrcs, and Lifi of proper Books oo e:\ch ~Jr1d . 0J rct11~r:t for the proper Cundotl:of Tra\·cl. And il V1ew or tbe.cc.mpanirt Importanc.e o f the various llranch~;:s of KnowJec.lge rcfpedHdy, ·~ |