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whereby he had been induced to confent to the Murder of that hopeful Prince; that Prodigy of Wickedness fucceeded to the Crown; his Advancement, however, contributed only the fooner to verify that Saying of the Poet of wicked great Men,

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For, not many Years after his Acceffion to the Throne, engaging unadvisedly in a War with the Romans, he was fhamefully and utterly defeated by Paulus Emilius; forced to betake himself to an ignominious Flight; and being betrayed by those in whom he had repofed the moft Confidence, all Hopes of escaping being vanished, furrendered him. felf to the Romans, and was difgracefully reserved by them, together with his Children, to adorn the Triumph of his Conqueror; the most mortifying Circumftance that furely could have befal n a once powerful Monarch Nor was this the full Com, pletion of his Mifery; for, to crown all, after liv, ing to be tumbled from the Throne, to be led in Triumph, and to fee himself abhorred and despised by all Men, unable to bear up any longer under fuch a Load of complicated Misfortunes, he put an End to his wretched Days by ftarving himself to Death.

We could, after this, fubjoin the remarkable Ex- ample of Orodes, King of Parthia; who, not having it in his Power fuitably to reward the great Services of his General Surena, who, by the entire Defeat of Craffus, had faved his Crown, grew envious of his uncommon Merit, and instead of a worthy Recompence, ungratefully caufed him to be put to Death. But he was, not many Years afterwards, repaid in his own Coin; having the cutting Action to receive not only as fignal an Overthrow from the Romans, under Ventidius, but also

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therewith to lose his beloved Son Pacorus, a Prince of the greateft Hopes and Virtues; whofe Death he only furvived, to be himfelf afterwards murdered by another of his Sons, that inhuman Parricide and Fratricide Phraates.

To this we might likewife add, from our own Chronicles, that memorable Inftance of the two great Dukes of Northumberland and Suffolk, Dudley, and Grey, who envying the Advancement of the two Seymours, Uncles to Edward VI. never ceafed their invidious Machinations, till they had wrought their Ruin, the one by the other. However, they escaped not long unpunished, being both of them executed as Traytors in the next Reign, and dying unpitied. But we think it altogether fuperfluous to multiply Examples upon this Head; fince what has been premifed, muft, in our Opinion, be more than fufficient to convince all, who are not paft reclaiming, that as, on the one hand, we are affured, in keeping the Commandments of GOD there is great Reward; fo, on the other, we may be certain, that Vengeance is the LORD's, and he will repay it; and this, all whe tranfgrefs his Laws, would do well continually to remember.

To conclude: We have now run through every one of the Commandments, and shown they are of exceeding great Latitude; and that well will it be if any, even the best of us, can lay our Hands upon our Hearts, and fay with Truth, we have not tranfgreffed them all, without Exception; if not actually, at leaft intentionally. But, fuppofing we had not, we are told by St. James, that Whosoever hall keep the whole Law, and yet offend in one Point be is guilty of all. And where is the Man can fay, he never broke any one Precept of the Divine Law? And again, we are told by St. Paul, Curfed is every one that continueth not in all Things which are written in the Book of the Laws to do them.

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ing then our melancholy Cafe, it certainly concerns us all highly, to know the full Extent of our Duty, left we should offend unknowingly, and thereby be brought under the Divine Difpleasure; the dreadful Confequence whereof, we know, is no less than eternal Damnation, unless we make our Peace by a timely and unfeigned Repentance, before we go hence, and are no more feen.

And upon this Account it was, that this Treatife was undertaken, and adapted as far as poffible to the Circumftances, Convenience, and Capacities of all forts of Readers, in fuch a manner as, we hope, will be found equally inftructive and entertaining. It has at least Variety and Novelty to recommend it, both of which are reckoned no fmall Charms in the prefent refined and polite Age; and it will furely be fomewhat hard, if thefe Sheets, having thofe Advantages, fhould not meet with a goodReception, merely because they are of more general Ufe than most modern Performances. In effect, we will venture to affirm, that there will fcarce be any Perfons who happen to perufe them, that will not be informed of fomewhat they knew not before; at least we have all the Reafon in the World to prefume this, if we judge by the Lives and Behaviour of all forts of People.

For instance, we do not at all question but the prefent King of France, and the Queen-Dowager of Spain are fufficiently inftructed in the Fundamentals of the Chriftian Religion, to be fenfible they must not worship any other than the true Gon, and alfo, that they must do no Murder; but can any one imagine, that, whilst regardless of every Principle of Juftice and Humanity, they have been laying wafte great Part of Europe with Fire and Sword, and wantening away the Lives of Millions, they ever thought themfelves guilty of breaking both the First and Sixth Commandment? And yet this

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is certainly the Truth, as they may both one Day find to their Coft.

Again, we do not doubt, but moft, even of our polite and fashionable Ladies, have been informed, that they must Remember to keep holy the Sabbath Day, and accordingly, perhaps, they may go to Church, or read a Sermon, or a Chapter in the Bible; but they never dream, when they jaunt about afterwards a vifiting, or pafs the Evening in Chit-chat over the Tea Table, that they are tranfgreffing the Fourth. As little do our modifh Gentry, who indulge themselves in cheating at Cards believe, that all the while they are no better than Thieves, and Violators of the Eighth.

This, nevertheless, is ftrictly true, and the fame may be faid of all the reft of the Commandments: Wherefore, we fhall only add, that, as no Pains have been spared to render this Work as conducive to the Purposes defigned, as lay in our Power, we hope it will give adequate Satisfaction, and be received with Candour, at leaft till fomewhat better of the fame kind offers; and we fhall fum up all with this falutary Advice of the Roman Poet,

-Si quid novifti, rectius iftis,

Candidus imperti; fi non, his utere mecum.

FINI S.

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