--and we all find by experience it is fo, and by reason that it always must be so. I conclude with a fhort obfervation upon Solomon's evidence in this cafe. Never did the bufy brain of a lean and heftick chemist search for the philofopher's stone with more pains and ardour than this great man did after happiness. He was one of the wifeft enquirers into nature-had tried all her powers and capacities, and after a thousand vain fpeculations and vile experiments, he affirmed at length, it lay hid in no one thing he had tried; like the chemist's projections all had ended in fmoke, or what was worfe, in vanity and vexation of fpirit:-the conclufion of the whole matter was this-that he advifes every man who would be happy, to fear GoD and keep his commandments. SER SERMON II. ECCLESIASTES VII. 2, 3. It is better to go to the house of mourning than to the boufe of feasting. TH HATI deny-but let us hear the wife man's reafoning upon it -for that is the end of all men, and the living will lay it to his heart: forrow is better than laughter- for a crack'dbrain'd order of Carthufian monks, I grant, but not for men of the world: For what purpose, do you imagine, has God made us? for the focial sweets of the well-watered vallies, where he has planted us, or for the dry and dismal defert of a Sierra Morena? are the fad accidents of life, and the uncheery hours which |