conſciences againſt any future impreſſions; that they may not, when they grow up, ſtartle at things which frighten illiterate men, who have not arm'd their minds with this ſort of ſcholaſtick philoſophy and academical knowledge.
Terræ-Filius. No. IV.
Behold I was ſhapen in iniquity, and in ſin did my mother conceive me.
Dr. Delaune's Text upon Original Sin.
Wednesday, January 25.
IF to found and endow publick nurſeries of learning is (as it is generally eſteemed) the moſt noble and commendable of all benefactions; it will follow, that to embezzle or miſapply moneys of eſtates bequeathed for that purpoſe, is, of all frauds, the vileſt and moſt deteſtable: private acts of injustice, which extend no farther than a family, or a ſingle perſon, are very pardonable in compariſon of thoſe publick ones, which reach to diſtant poſterity, and fruſtrate the uſeful progreſs of knowledge and philoſophy.
A tradeſman may, by extortion, take two or three ſhillings in the pound, or even Cent. per Cent. more than his commodity is worth, of an old miſer; or a whore may pick a young ſpendthrift's pocket,
