Parental legacies; consisting of advice from a lady of quality to her children. Delivered in the last stage of a lingering illness

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1804 Excerpt: ...we sind her presentjn all cur necessities. She never forsakes us: in anv of cur distresses; she makes us airends fcr all the losses we sustain; she attends us, even to the grave; in her bosom we live, in her arms we expire. Religion sanctisies our rctiens; and furnishes the scul with infrite constlation, by settiag before it the hope of an everlasiing Recompence. In what deep distress siVuh!1 now be involved, if, being about to lose you, whom I love more dearly than myself, I had no resource ia the treasures of heaven! A fatal despair would seize cpon my soul; I should smk into t:.e horrors cf annihilation/ and'should expire full of rage and fury. But, O my God,.the considence which I have, that I shall see and enjoy Thee, calms my grief and assures me, that in Thee I have what is much more precious to me than the whole universe, even more than my children themselves, though so exceedingly dear to me., Thus it is that our holy religion ssies to cur succour in the midst of evils; the more afflictive they are, the more abundant are her consolations. How happy will you be, if you observe her maxitiis! nothing can then render you nif rable.-rYou will perceive the hand of God in every occurrence of your life, however trivi 1 ia appearance: yu will rc'mowledge Hs wisdom in every leaf that shooteth, m evry infect that creepers), h every grain of dust that you tread under your seet; you w:ll know that He is the Author. cf lise ard death; thut he directs our thoughts, listers to our sig's, enaM-s us to beholi and to. deeb-re the wonders of hisProviJerce.:. How many d?ys, alas! havj I passed with-. out reflect; g 01 these troths! The world is a stream, wi ich always caries us away, far. from. God, and from t urselv. s.-. In the eyes cf the man cf tl is world, relig-....