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TO NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS

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'not as yet taken any notice of it: if you mention it in your paper, it may perhaps have a very good effect. What I mean is the disturbance some people give 'to others at church, by their repetition of the prayers ' after the minister, and that not only in the prayers, but also the absolution and the commandments fare 'no better, which are in a particular manner the 'priest's office: this I have known done in so audible 6 a manner, that sometimes their voices have been as loud as his. As little as you would think it, this is frequently done by people seemingly devout: This 'irreligious inadvertency is a thing extremely offen'sive; but I do not recommend it as a thing I give you liberty to ridicule, but hope it may be amended 'by the bare mention.

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Truth is in a great measure concealed from the blind.

IT is very reasonable to believe, that part of the pleasure which happy minds shall enjoy in a future state, will arise from an enlarged contemplation of the divine wisdom in the government of the world, and a discovery of the secret and amazing steps of Providence from the beginning to the end of time. Nothing seems to be an entertainment more adapted to the nature of man, if we consider that curiosity is one of the strongest and most lasting appetites implanted in us, and that admiration is one of our most B b

VOL. III.

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