But if at once the Tempeft don't abate,
Beware you're not impelled to imitate,
What made you Wrath, and what you ought to hate
For bowfoe' er fuch profper in their Ways,
And profp'rous Villanies may Envy raise :
Yet Justice fhall o'ertake their flagrant Crimes,
And they be fwept away before Time: 3
Whereas all fuch as patiently refign,

And humbly wait Jehovah's Will divine,
Shall in this Life be bless'd with inward Peace,
And in the next, with Joys that never ceafe.
Think not the Wicked flourishes too long,
Or that in ought thy God can e'er be wrong.
Who to his Wifdom fhall prescribe the Hour,
To ceafe his Patience, and exert his Pow'r?
Altho the Wicked in their Strength appear,
To brave Adverfity, and laugh at Fear;
Tho' like a folid Rock which mocks the Tides,
And all the Fury of the Storm derides,
They feem fecure; yet on this Truth depend,
A little Time will all their Greatness end:
Burft the fwoll'n Bubles, their very Names fball die,
And with themfelves in dark Oblivion lie.
The Meek, fubmitting to their God, fhall be
With Peace rewarded, and Profperity,
Which be'll entail on late Pofterity.

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The wicked Men against the Just may rise, And for bis Ruin various Plots devife; Ridiculous their Wiles to God appear, Who fees their own Perdition drawing near. Though to complete the jush Man's Overthrow They've drawn the hoftile Sword, and bent the Bow, Altho' with Rage malevolent they burn,

Their warlike Weapons on themselves fhall turn : And that Deftruction which they hop'd t'ave wrought Upon the Juft, fball on themselves be brought.

Altho

-Altho' the Wicked own a mighty Store, v And that the Juft are barely faid not poor; Yet will their Little greater Peace afford, Than all the mighty Sums the others hoard: For the Unjuft, as Foes will God destroy, But blefs that Little which the Good enjoy. Honeft Industry fhall their Stock encreafe And fweet Content fecure their inward Peace. Althe' the Just fome times Affliction know, And God regardless feems of all their Woe;" Seems to furceafe his Care, avert bis Eyes, And not to hear, or not to heed their Cries, Yet is bis Providence their conftant guard, Their Suff'rings and their Patience he'll reward: Their Refignation he'll repay with Love, And Childrens Children fhall his Bleffings prove. When for the crying Sins of any Nation God's Minifter of Wrath Spreads Devaftation, Defcending to fulfil his dread Command, Scatters the Peftilence throughout a Land, Or let's loafe Famine, or indus a War; The Juft will be the Object of his Care : Thefe will th'avenging Minifter protect, No Air peftiferous fhall their Homes infect: The Famine fhall not pass their outward Wall, Nor fhall they by a boftile Fury fall.

Thefe, as his Friend, the holy One will cherish
While, as his Foes fhall wicked Doers perish.
Glutted with Plenty, and with Succefs elate,
Not dreaming Vengeance on their Crimes does wait;
They fhall as fatted Viims fall a Prey,
And as the Fat of Lambs confume away.
Obferve thou in this Life, how very oft,
Thofe Men who at a fcrup'lous Confcience fcoft;
Roggled at nought that might encrease their Store,
However bafe, become exceffive poor :

Driven

Driven to double Shame, their Wants And borr wing, blush they can't restore

Not fo the Juft, he shall a Strange To Shocks like thefe from dire Neceffis By God enabled, he fhall Mercy fhew, And to the Wanting, Gharity bestow For God, whofe Promifes can never fo Does Bleffings on the righteous Man en God will reward him with a lib'ral And he enjoy the Fatness of the Land The Curfe of God he fall as furely fe The Wicked lead to fad Catastrophe.

Mr. B came in as I had finished Lines, and reading it faid, You are Character, my Pamela, do you think with that of a holy Prophet, as wa David, to mention two Heathen D and Fortune?

Sir, faid I, I was aware of the Ob as the Gods of the leathens, I have Dæmons, I thought it was fhewing were under the Influence of evil Spi tainly I think all muft be, who pref tory Riches, and fading Glory of which we are not certain to enjoy one carious is Life) to an eternal Happine

Well, anfwer'd he, I won't preten though your Reason is not fatisfact fpir'd Writer had no Occafion for Fic Sir, faid I, but it is not David, you der, but a very poor Poetafter who thefe falfe Gods. Ay, but my Char may be allow'd a Poet, with Regard cenfe in prophane, will never be forg facred Writings. David knew no

What I mean is, he would not have ftained, have fullied his Writings with their Names, if not to explode them; but you, in your Paraphrafe, (indeed it may more properly be called a Comment) attribute a Power to them.

Really, Sir, this laft Argument is convincing, I will alter the two LinesNo, my dear, they are not written for the Publick, and this is vifibly not from a bad Intention; your Defign, you have fhewn is good, but in my Opinion your Zeal mifted your Judgment. Go on, my Charmer, and excufe me if I take this Liberty with the Compofitions of your leifure Hours, my Fondness makes me find Fault where I think there is ground for it. I will no longer break in upon your Entertainment; go on, my dear Pamela; he here tenderly embraced, kifs'd, and then left me. I purfued my agreeable Task till Supper-time, when Kachel came to call me. Soon after, we went to Bed.

On Monday we rofe early. When I went down to Breakfast I found Mr. Brown in the Parlour. My dear Mafter told me he had fent for,s and prevailed on him to be our 'Squire to MaidStone, with which was greatly pleas'd, and thank'd both Mr. B and him, the former for his obliging Care to procure, and the other for favouring us with fo entertaining and edifying a Companion.

B

About Eleven o'Clock came Sir Simon and his Lady; they drank Chocolate, after which her Ladyfhip had a mind to take a Turn in the Garden, my Mother and I waited on her, and left the Gentlemen, who had enter'd upon publick Affairs, a Subject, which, as none of us pretended to underftand, could afford us no Entertainment. Having made a Couple of Rounds, we went into the Summer-boufe, and Mr. Brown joined us N

there

there foon after. Ladies, faid he, as I litician, I have left Sir Simon and Mr fettle the Affairs of Europe, which, they'll foon have done, and have perfe for the extending our Trade, making great Plenty in London, as it was at 7 the Time of Solomon, and the English mous as was that of the ancient Roman you the Nation is not a little indebted the Pains they take; but the Ladies in are greatly obliged to their publick S don't doubt but French Silks, Flanders Genna Velvet, Roman Gloves, Ros-a rots, Monkeys, and India Skreens will much cheaper Rates.

Is not this, faid my Lady, being tyrical upon our Mafters, Mr. Bro Madam, anfwer'd he, for they are Words of Mr. B, in fpeaking joc Simon, who replied, you are certain laughing at our Undertaking to direct of Europe; but the Difcourfe amuses Time, and as we do no Service, fo Hurt to either the Publick, or any part fon in it, and I had rather divert myself at the Views, or drawing Confequence Actions of Sovereign Princes, than be p and cenfuring the domeftick Affairs and my Neighbours. Well then, faid Mr. let us begin, and do fome good at home, Imagination. Here, Ladies, I left the fairs of State ought to be managed by they may be carried on with the greater S

I wifh, faid my Lady, their publick S make them lofe their Diverfion, 'tis Twelve, and Sir Simon faid the Horfes upon the Courfe at a little after One