All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.

And I add this part here, to hint to whoever shall read it, that whenever they come to a true Sense of things, they will find Deliverance from Sin a much greater Blessing than Deliverance from Affliction.

This grieved me heartily ; and now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it.

Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.

It is never too late to be wise.

Now, said I aloud, My dear Father's Words are come to pass: God's Justice has overtaken me, and I have none to help or hear me: I rejected the Voice of Providence.

All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.