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The Benefits which ariſe
good diſpoſitions, and in ſome meaſure to eſtabliſh a character, which will not depend on every accidental impulſe. To be convinced of truths, and yet not to feel or act up to them, is a common thing. Preſent pleaſure drives all before it, and adverſity is mercifully ſent to force us to think.
In the ſchool of adverſity we learn knowledge as well as virtue; yet we lament our hard fate, dwell on our diſappointments, and never conſider that our own wayward minds, and inconſiſtent hearts, require theſe needful correctives. Medicines are not ſent to perſons in health.
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