And back each human path they fondly trace,

That led through steady Wisdom's peaceful ways, Through the still vale of dear domestic life; Or through the toils of virtue's arduous strife,

To this blest paradise, this beamy crown, This cloudless day, whose sun shall never set.

INDEX.

REFLECTIONS ON THE SEVEN DAYS OF THE
WEEK.

Page
Sunday.--The Omnipresence of God, and the practical

inferences from it . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Monday.-The Improvement of Time, and Self-Exa-

mination . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Tuesday.–The Duty of constant Employment ... 12
Wednesday.-On the humble and religious Enjoyment

of the Blessings of Life .......:::
Thursday. The Duty and Manner of being useful in

Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Friday.-On the Happiness of the present State, and

the Self-Denial required in it . . . . . . . . ?7
Saturday.-The Importance of Time in relation to

Eternity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

. DIALOGUES.
1. Description of a moral, but not gloomy Retire-

ment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
II. Inquiry how far Practice has kept pace with in- .

tention . . . . . . . . . . . . .
III. Danger of too much Prosperity without the As-

sistance of real Friends . . . . . . . .
IV. On the Danger and insinuating Nature of Va-

nity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
V. On the Nature of human Happiness. · · ·

SEGOSIORIAL THOUGHTS ........

PROSE PASTORALS.

Page 1. Inquiry into the Happiness or Misery of a Shep

herd's Life . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 II. On the Comforts of virtuous Poverty.... 87 III. The Happiness of religious Hope ..... 91

ALLEGORIES. 1. Life compared to a Play ......... 131 II. The Danger of the Indulgence of the Imagination 137

POETRY.

To Laura . .

.145 On reading the Love Elegies, 1742 ...... : 148 Written on New Year's Eve, while the Bells were ring

ing out the Old Year ......... To Cheerfulness . . . . . . . . . . . 152 Moral Stanzas . . . . . . . . : Lines written in the Country towards the end of

Autumn

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THE END.

T. Davison, Printer, Whitefriars.