and unmercifully left him to all the diftreffes of his condition. In all unmerciful actions the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the cafe will well let them;-fo that in the hardest acts a man shall be guilty of, he has fome motives, true or falfe, always ready to offer, either to fatisfy himself or the world, and, God knows, too often to impose both upon the one and the other. And therefore it would be no hard matter here to give a probable guess at what paffed in the Levite's mind in the prefent cafe, and fhew, was it neceffary, by what kind of cafuiftry he settled the matter with his confcience as he paffed by, and guarded all the paffages to his heart against the inroads which pity might attempt to make upon the occa fion. But it is painful to dwell long upon this difagreeable part of the story; I therefore haften to the concluding in cident of it, which is fo amiable, that one 1 cannot eafily be too copious in reflections upon it. And behold, fays our SAVIOUR, a certain Samaritan as he journeyed came where he was; and when he faw him he had compaffion on him-and went to him-bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine-fet him upon his own beaft, brought him to an inn, and took care of him. I fuppofe, it will be scarce neceffary here to remind you that the Jews had no dealings with the Samaritans an old religious grudgethe worst of all grudges, had wrought fuch a diflike between both people, that they held themselves mutually discharged not only from all offices of friendship and kindness, but even from the most common acts of courtesy and good manners. This operated fo ftrongly in our SAVIOUR's time, that the woman of Samaria feemed aftonished that he, being a Jew, fhould ask water of her who was a Samaritan;-fo that with fuch a prepoffeffion, however diftrefsful the cafe of the unfortunate man was, and how reasonably foever he might plead for pity from another man, there was Frle aid or confolation to be looked for from fo unpromising a quarter. Alas! der I have been twice paffed by, neglected Imon of my own nation and religion, bound ly a mary lies to afit me, left here friend Prieft and a Le and fuperior ad Sverige sal not leave them MTB COM ML they should dif AC VINCENT condition claims pre-order buga? what expecta- a meleger, it cnly a stranger, crita mela'ed from all obliama national dislike inmatua il offices, now made and more likely to rejoice at the evils a fallen upon me, than to ftretch t name to love me from them! my nt unnatural foliloquy to imabut the actions of generous and zarinaionare tempers baffle all little "easonings about them.-True charity, n the Apoftie's defcription, as it is kind, 15 is not eafly provoked, fo it manithis character here;-for we find - when he came where he was, and beheld his diftrefs, all the unfriendly paffions, which at another time might have rofe within him, now utterly forfook him and fled: when he faw his misfortunes-he forgot his enmity towards the man,dropped all the prejudices which education had planted against him, and in the room of them, all that was good and compaffionate was fuffered to fpeak in his behalf. In benevolent natures the impulse to pity is fo fudden, that like inftruments of mufic which obey the touch-the objects which are fitted to excite fuch impreffions work fo inftantaneous an effect, that you would think the will was fcarce concerned, and that the mind was altogether paffive in the fympathy which her own goodness has excited. The truth is -the foul is generally in fuch cafes fo bufily taken up and wholly engroffed by the object of pity, that she does not attend to her own operations, or take leifure to examine the principles upon which fhe acts. So that the Samaritan, though |