Candor agrees beft with all Humours; and he that is over folicitous to conceal a Thing, does as good as make a Proclamation of it. More Men Reclaim out of Shame, Fear, or pure Neceffity, than for the love of Honour or Virtue. They that are Honeft upon thefe Terms, would be arrant Knaves if the Tables were turn'd. Of whomfoever we have any thing to ask, we ought to nick our time; as for Inftance, at the conclufion of a good Meal, or of fome other Refreshment, that has put them in a good Humour; in cafe the Prudence of him that is Addreffed to, prevent not the Artifice of him who Defires. Days of Rejoycing are the Days of Favour, because the Joy within spreads it felf abroad. We are not to prefent our felves when we fee another denied, feeing then the fear of saying No is furmounted. • 'Tis a common thing for People to blame what they Practice, and to be fpending their Cenfures upon others, when they fhould be examining themfelves: Whereas in Juftice, Charity and Prudence, we should make no other ufe of our Neighbour's Faults, than we do of a Looking-Glafs, to mend our own Manners by, and to fet Matters right at home. * A Publick Character is nevertheless to be Reverenc'd because a Coxcomb perhaps may carry it : Nor that Coxcomb one jot the imore, fave only for the fake of his Office. Yet there are those who take the Honour and Refpect that is done to the Character they fuftain, to be paid to the Perfon; and interpret every nod or glance of Civility, in their own own Favour, though it wasneither due to them, nor ever intended to them. * A Fool's Plot may fometimes be as lucky as a Fool's Handfel. 'Tis Matter of Prudence for a Man never to be wholly at the Devotion of any one. The greateft Union admits of Exception, and without Prejudice too, to the Laws of most intimate FriendThip. The Friend always referves fome Secret, and the Son conceals fomewhat even from the Father. Some things are made Myfterious to fome, and yet Comunicated to others; and contrariwife. 'Tis cunning in inconfiderable Persons to Vie with Great Men, that they may get themselves Credit by an indirect way, when they cannot have it by Right. Many Men had never been known if excellent Adverfaries had not taken notice of them. Now the highest and most politick Revenge against empty Blockheads is Contempt and Oblivion; for it is the burying of these Men under the Duft of their own Nullity. There's a fort of Cunning whereby fome endeavour to conceal their Failings, or at leaft diminish them in the Opinion of the World, which is a plain confeffing of the fame. Many a Man fays, he knows nothing at all, who is really an Ignoramus; another tells you he is Old, and is in effect paft Threefcore; and a third profeffes himself to be Poor, when in truth he has nothing that he can call his own. We We depend in a great measure for our Wit, Palate, Sentiments, Humours and Paffions upon the Place we live in, and the Perfons we converse with. Virtue is fo good in it felf that it needs no falfe Paint to make it look better; and Vice is fo bad, that it can never look fo ugly as when fhewed in its own Natural Colours. * Providence has made an equal distribution of Natural Gifts, whereof each Creature feverally has a fhare; and it is not for this or that Particular to pretend to all; fo that confidering the Equality of the Divifion, no Creature has cause either to boast or to complain. But here is a Civil War that runs through all the parts of the Universe, where nothing is pleas'd with its own Lot. * We fhew more Regret for the time we have mispent, than Solicitude to make a good ufe of the prefent. It is very difficult to fill up a great Vacancy, feeing commonly the first appears the best; and by confequence Equality is not enough,because the former is in Poffeffion, it is therefore neceffary to have double his worth to difpoffefs him of the advantage of being moft Efteemed, There's no Beauty without help, nor Perfection that is not apt to fall into Barbarity, if Art lend not an helping Hand. This corrects what is Bad, and perfects what is Good. Nature generally denies us the best, to the end we may have recourse to Industry. Industry. And how great foever a Man's Talent's may be, unless they be Cultivated they are but half Talents. Without Art a Man knows nothing as he ought to do, and is clownish in every thing he fets about. FINIS. Ittle Venus Unmask'd. The Seventh Edition. Being a Difcourfe of the French Pox, with all its Kinds, Cafes, Signs, and Prognostications. Allo the Running of the Reins, Shanker, Bubo, Gleets, &c. with their Cures; whereby a Patient may easily discover the Nature and Degree of his Disaster, and if not very Inveterate or Malignant, may Cure himself beyond any Apothecary or Surgeon. And what is the Chief, an Appendix of new Obfervati ons never yet difcovered by any: To which is added, a particular Veneral Cafe, never before Printed. By Gideon Harvey, M. D. Printed for William Turner at the Angle at Lincons-Inn-Back-Gate. Price Two Shillings. Wherein is A Difcourfe on Divine Providence. fhewn, the Signification and Importance of the Word. Proofs by Holy Scripture, Reason, and the Confeffion of Philofophers, that there is a Providence. Who are the Enemies of Providence, that Deny it either in Whole, or Part: What Reasons they make use of; with Anfwers to their Arguments. The Parts of Divine Providence, Prefervation and Government. By Richard Kington, M. A. and Chaplain in Ordinary to King Charles II. Printed for Richard Baffet, at the Mitre over-against Chancery-Lane in Fleet-Street. A Lecture of Anatomy, against of the Blood; read Publickly at the Sixth of November laft paft. Brown. Printed for John Chantrey, Mortar without Temple-Bar. the Circulation Exeter Exchange, By Dr. Jofeph at the Peftle and |