Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Hints to Rural Divines.

By a LADY.

THE difficult disquisitions, nor the elucidation of obscurities; which come not in the sphere of mechanics, or labourers. Teach them all the advantages of real honesty, distinguished from the quirks of over-reaching cunning. Teach charity in its most extensive sense; as also in the act of alms, where the means afford it. Preach against drunkenness, a vice, that besets the lowest class in every place. Against every vice pour out, in perspicuous language, the dangerous effects to society, and to every individual. Expatiate on the commandments, and fail not to exhibit the beauty, delight, and superlative advantage of every virtue, opposed to the practice of the vice described. Lessons for those in office may occasionally be given, teaching justice attempered by lenity, and power directed with impartiality, and without the pride of superiority. Fortitude and patience, under all pains, sickness, and distresses, may be frequently taught, and every precept receive its divine sanction, from the unerring rules plainly set forth in the gospels, by the parables and by the sermon on the mount; and the affecting historical narrations in the acts of the Apostles, and the ever useful instructions in the epistles, afford ample subjects to inspire piety, to touch the heart, and mend the morals and manners of mankind, without entering on the explanation of doubts, which are better not to be raised, how well soever they may be answered, since the generality of understanding go on with more safety in the plain road of an unquestionable faith, than when they hazard their security in a labyrinth of objections and replies. Lastly---the inestimable benefits of Christianity should be always introduced with that glow which genuine Christianity cannot fail to inspire in its sincerest votaries; and those benefits should be always enforced with energy, free from enthusiasm.

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