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Deſultory Thoughts.
I am apt to imagine, that ſorrow and reſignation are not incompatible; and that though religion cannot make ſome diſappointments pleaſant, it prevents our repining, even while we ſmart under them. Did our feelings and reaſon always coincide, our paſſage through this world could not juſtly be termed a warfare, and faith would no longer be a virtue. It is our preferring the things that are not ſeen, to thoſe which are, that proves us to be the heirs of promiſe.
On the ſacred word of the Moſt High, we rely with firm aſſurance, that the ſufferings of the preſent life
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