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46 APPENDIX. being born, wherefore should you disquiet yourself about living? Wherefore about dying? Are you not still in the same Hand?"-ST. PIERRE. "In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength."ISAIAH XXX. I5.'" Thoughts or sensations.... could not be thoughts or sensations, if they were not felt."DR. THOS. BROWN. "' To think is to feel."-DESTUTT DE TRACY. "All things belonging to life and piety are of L1. 35-438. his divine Power that is given us through the knowledge of Him who has called us, by glory and virtue: whereby very great and precious promises are given us; that by these you may become partakers of the divine nature, in fleeing from the corruptions' in the world."-PETER, Epist. 2, i. 3, 4. Purver's Translation. l "He is more noteworthy who beareth in mind his own weakness, than he, who, neglectful of this, searcheth after, or shall even discover and follow out the courses of the stars, while losing sight of the road by which he himself may attain to happiness and stability. For he who being warmed by the stirrings of the Holy Spirit, hath waited earnestly upon God, and hath humbled himself openly in love to Him, impotently desiring to approach Him, and hath regarded His shining in himself upon himself, and hath discovered himself, and perceived that his corruptness cannot be reconciled with the divine purity, findeth a solace in weeping, and in begging for mercy without ceasing, until He shall remove all his woe, and in praying with confidence after that he hath freely obtained the earnest of salvation through the alone Saviour and Illuminator of mankind."' —AuGuSTINE.