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The Obſervance of Sunday.
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the paſſions being employed this way, will, by degrees, come under the ſubjection of reaſon. I mean not to be rigid, the obſtructions which ariſe in the way of our duty, do not ſtrike a ſpeculatiſt; I know, too, that in the moment of action, even a well-diſpoſed mind is often carried away by the preſent impulſe, and that it requires ſome experience to be able to diſtinguiſh the dictates of reaſon from thoſe of paſſion. The truth is ſeldom found out until the tumult is over; we then wake as from a dream, and when we ſurvey what we have done, and feel the folly of it, we might call on reaſon and ſay, why ſleepeſt thou? Yet
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