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decalogue is, to labor fix days in the week? and an infpired apostle has commanded us to work, under the express penalty of not eating in default of it? "This we commanded you," fays he, "that if any would not work, neither fhould he eat.” "Train up a child," fays king Selomon, "in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it."

4. But if you intend him for the gallows, train him up in the way he would go; and before he is old, he will probably be hanged. In the age of vanity, reftrain him not from the follies and allurements of it. In the age proper for learning and inftruction, give him neither. As to catechifing him, it is an old fashioned, puritanical, useless formality. Never heed it, left his mind be unhappily biaffed by the influence of a religious education.

5. Mofes, indeed, after faying to the children of Ifrael, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy foul, and with all thy might," thought proper to fubjoin, "and those words which I command thee this day, thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children." But we know that Mofes did not intend those children to be trained up for the gallows. His advice therefore is not to the purpose.

6. Mine, which is immediately directed to the object in view, must confequently be very different. And, paramount to any other direction which I can poffibly give, I would particularly advise, as an effential part of the course of this education, by which a child, when he arrives to manhood, is intended to make fo exalted a figure, that his parents fhould fuffer him every Sabbath day, during summer and autumn, to patrol about the eighborhood, and to steal as much fruit as he can carry off.

7. To encourage him more in this branch of his education, in cafe the poor fcrupulous lad fhould fhow any compunctions of confcience about it, I would have his mother partake of the ftolen fruit; and eat it with keener appetite than fhe does any of her own, or her husband's lawfully acquired earnings. For his further encouragement, both his parents fhould always take his part, whenever the proprietor of the ftolen fruit prefers to them his complaint against him; and by all means refuse to chastise him for his thievery. 8. They

8. They should fay, "Where is the harm of taking a litte fruit? The gentleman does not want it all for his own ufe. He doubtlefs raifed part of it for poor people." This will greatly fmooth his way to more extenfive, and more profitable robberies.

9. He will foon perfuade himself, that many rich men have more wealth than they really want; and as they owe part of their affluence to the poor, upon the principle of charity, why fhould not the poor take their fhare without the formality of afking confent? He will now become a thief in good earneft; and finding it eafier, at leaft as he imagines, to fupport himself by theft than by honest industry, he will continue the practice until he is detected, apprehended, convicted, condemned, and gibbeted.

10. Then he will have exactly accomplished the destined end of his education, and proved himself to have been an apt fcholar. Under the gallows, and in his last dying fpeech, he will fay, "Had my father whipped me for breaking the fabbath; and had not my mother encouraged me to rob orchards, and gardens, and hen-roofts on that holy day, I fhould not have been brought to this ignominious punishment.

II. "But they have been the cause, by encouraging me in my early youth in the ways of fin, of this my awful catastrophe, and probably, of the eternal ruin of my immortal foul." Parents, believe and tremble! and refolve to educate your children in oppofition to the gallows.

CHARACTER OF FIDELIA,

BEFORE I enter upon the particular parts of Fidelia's character, it is neceffary to preface that fhe is the only child of a decrepit father, whofe life is bound up in her's. This gentleman has used Fidelia from her infancy with all the tenderness imaginable; and has viewed her growing perfections with the partiality of a parent, who foon thought her accomplished above the children of all other men; but never thought fhe was come to the highest improvement of which the herfelf was capable.

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2. This fondness has had very pleafing effects upon his own happiness; for fhe reads, the dances, the fings, ufes her fpinet and guitar to the utmost perfection. And the young lady's ufe of all thefe excellencies, is to divert the ld man in his eafy chair, when he is out of the pangs of a chronical diftemper.

3. Fidelia is now in the twenty-third year of her age; but the application of many admirers, her quick fenfe of all that is truly elegant and noble in the enjoyment of a plentiful fortune, are not able to draw her from the fide of her good old father. Certain it is, that there is no kind of affection fo pure and angelic, as that of a father to a daughter.

4. Fidelia, on her part, as I was going to fay, as accomplifhed as fhe is, with all her beauty, wit, air and mien, employs her whole time in care and attendance upon her fa ther. How have I been charmed to fee one of the moft beauteous women the age has produced, kneeling to help on an old man's flipper! Her filial regard to him is what she makes her diverfion, her bufinefs, and her glory.

5. When she was asked by a friend of her deceased mother, to admit of the courtship of her fon, fhe answered, that she had a great refpect and gratitude to her for the overture in behalf of one fo near to her, but that, during her father's life, fhe would admit into her heart no value for any thing which fhould interfere with her endeavours to make his remains of life as happy and eafy as could be expected in his circumstances.

6. The happy father has her declaration, that she will not marry during his life, and the pleasure of seeing that refolution not uneafy to her. Were one to paint filial affection in its utmost beauty, he could not have a more lively idea of it than in beholding Fidelia ferving her father at his hours of rifing, meals and reft.

7. When the general crowd of female youth are confulting their glaffes, preparing for balls, affemblies, or plays; for a young lady, who could be regarded among the foremoft in those places, either for her perfon, wit, fortune, or converfation, and yet contemn all these entertainments, to fweeten the heavy hours of a decrepit parent, is a refignation truly heroic.

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8. Fidelia performs the duty of a nurse with all the beauty of a bride; nor does the neglect her perfon, because of her attendance upon him, when he is too ill to receive company, to whom fle may make an appearance.

9. Fidelia, who gives him up her youth, does not think it any great facrifice to add to it the fpoiling of her drefs. Her care and exact! fs in her habit convince her father of the alacrity of her mind; and fhe has of all women the best foundation for affecting the praise of a feeming negligence.

10. Thofe who think themfelves the pattern of good breeding, and refinement, would be astonished to hear, that, in thofe intervals, when the old gentleman is at ease, and can bear company, there are at his house in the most regular order, affemblies of people of the higheft merit; where there is converfation without mention of the abfent, and the highest fubjects of morality treated of as natural and accidental difcourfe.

11. All of which is owing to the genius of Fidelia, who at once makes her father's way to another world easy, and herself capable of being an honor to his name in this.

HISTORY OF JERUSALEM.

ACCORDING to Manetho, an Egyptian

historian, Jerufalem was founded by the fhepherds who invaded Egypt in an unknown period of antiquity. According to Jofephus, it was the capital of Melchizedeck's kingdom, and built in honor of that prince, by twelve neighboring kings.

2. We know nothing of it with certainty, however, till the time of king David, who took it from the Jebufites, and made it the capital of his kingdom. It was first taken in the days of Jehoafh, by Hazael, king of Affyria, who flew all the nobility, but did not deftroy their city.

3. It was afterwards taken by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, who destroyed it and carried away the inhab itants. Seventy years after, permiffion was granted by Cyrus, king of Perfia, to the Jews to rebuild their city, which was done; and it continued the capital of Judea till the

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time of Vefpafian, emperor of Rome, by whose fon Titus it was totally destroyed.

4. It was, however, rebuilt by Adrian, and feemed likely to recover its former grandeur; but it flourished for a fhort time only. When the emprefs Helena, mother of Conftantine the great, came to vifit it, fhe found it in a most forlorn and ruinous fituation.

5. Having formed a defign of restoring it to its ancient luftre, fhe caufed, with a great deal of coft and labor, all the rubbish which had been thrown upon thofe places where our Saviour had fuffered, been buried, &c. to be removed.

6. In doing this, they found the crofs on which he died, as well as thofe of the two malefactors who fuffered with him. She then caufed a magnificent church to be built, which enclosed as many fcenes of our Saviour's fuf. ferings as could conveniently be done.

7. This church, which ftands on mount Calvary, is ftill in good repair, being fupported by the donations of pilgrims who are conftantly reforting to it. Here is to be feen our Saviour's fepulchre, hewn out of a solid rock and the very hole in the rock in which it is faid the foot of the cross was fixed, with many other curiofities.

8. On mount Moriah ftood the celebrated temple of Solomon, which was feven years in building, and employed no lefs than 163,300 men. The height of this building on one fide was at least 960 feet; and the ftones employed about the ramparts were, according to Jofephus, 40 cubits long, 12 thick, and 8 high, all of polifhed marble, and fo well joined as to appear like one folid rock.

9. After the deftruction of this temple, it is faid that the emperor Julian attempted to rebuild it, in order to give the lie to our Saviour's prophecy, namely, that it should be totally deftroyed without one ftone's being left upon another. In this, however, he was defeated by earthquakes, fiery eruptions, &c. which deftroyed his materials, and killed many of his workmen.

10. At prefent, Jerufalem is but a poor, thinly inhabited town, about three miles in circumference, furrounded with mountains on all fides except the north, with fteep afcents and deep vallics.

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