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Such probably were the Considerations that directed the wise Man in his Advice to Husbands; Be not jealous over the Wife of thy Bosom, and teach her not an evil Lesson against thy self. Ecclus. We may see by what has been said, that Jealousy takes the deepest Root in Men of amorous Dispositions; and of these we may find three Kinds who are most over-run with it.
Seek not to be Judge, being not able to take away Iniquity, lest at any Time thou fear the Person of the Mighty, and lay a stumbling Block in the Way of thy Uprightness. Offend not against the Multitude of a City, and then thou shalt not cast thy self down among the People. Bind not one Sin upon another, for in One thou shalt not be Unpunished. Ecclus. Ch. 7.
And well cautions the wise man: 'Let the counsel of thine own heart stand; for there is no man more faithful to thee than it: for a man's mind is sometimes wont to tell him more than seven watchmen, that sit above in a high tower.* * Ecclus. xxxvii. 13, 14. Forgive these indigested self-reasonings. I will close here: and instantly set about a letter of revocation to Mr.
"As is the fat taken away from the peace-offering, so was David chosen out of the children of Israel ... In all his works he praised the Holy One Most High with words of glory .... The Lord took away his sins and exalted his horn for ever, He gave him a covenant of kings, and a throne of glory in Israel." Ecclus. xlvii.
"Woe be to fearful hearts and faint hands, and the sinner that goeth two ways!" Ecclus. two 12. Whatever may have been the feeling which possessed the mind of Constance on her departure from Langley, the incident was felt by Maude as a wrench and an uprooting, surpassing any previous incident of her life since leaving Pleshy.
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