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 THE 
 
 PILGRIMS 
 
 AN ALLEGORY. 
 
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The PILGRIMS, &c. 
 
 ETHOUHT I was once upon a time 
 . travelling through a certain land which 
 was very full of people, but, what was rather 
 odd, not one of ail this multitude was at 
 home ; they were all hound to a far diftant 
 country. 1 hough it was permitted by the 
 Lord of the tend that thefe Pilgrims might 
 aflbciate together for their prefent mutual 
 comfort and convenience; and .each was not 
 ©nly allowed, but commanded to do to th& 
 others all the fervices he could upon .their 
 
 journey, yet it was decreed* that every indi- 
 vidual traveller mufl enter the far country 
 fingly. There was a great gulf at the end of 
 the journey which every one im 7 ft pais alone, 
 and at his own rift, and the friendihip of th^ 
 
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 whole united world could be of no ufe in 
 footing that gulf. The exact time when 
 each was to pais was not known to any, this 
 the Lord always kept a do ft fecret out of 
 kindnefs, yet ftill they .were as fure that the 
 nine rnufl come, and that at no very great dif- 
 eance, as it they were informed of the very 
 moment* 'Now, asthey knew they were a U 
 ways liable to be called away at an hour's 
 notice, one would have thought they would 
 v have been chiefly employed in packing up, and 
 preparing, and getting every thing in order. 
 Not they indeed. It was a! mod the only 
 thing which they did not think about. 
 
 Now 1 only appeal to you, my readers, if 
 any of you are fetting out upon a little com- 
 mon journey, if it is only to Londbnor York, 
 is not all your leifure time employed in fet- 
 tling your bufmefs at -home, and packing up 
 every' little neceflary for your expedidon > 
 And does not the fear of neglecting any thing 
 you ought to remember or may have occafion 
 for, haunt your mind, and fo me times even 
 intrude upon you unfeafonably ? And when, 
 you are actually on your journey, efpecially 
 if j ou have never been at that place before, 
 or are likely to remain there, don't you begin 
 to think a little about the pleafures and the 
 employments of the place, and to wifh to 
 know a little what fort of a city London or 
 
 York* 
 
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 York is? Don't )0u .wonder what is- doing 
 there, and whether you are properly qualified . 
 for the bufinefs or 'the company you expeit 
 to be engaged in ? Do you never look at the 
 man orconfult Brookes's Gazetteer? An j 
 don't you tiy to pick up from your fellow pal- 
 fengers in the ftage coach any little Ftiformatw 
 oii you can get) And though yournay be 
 obliged, out of civility, to convene with them 
 on compafehjeSs, yet do not your fecre.t 
 thoughts ftill run upon London or York, its 
 bufinefs, or its pfeafures ? And above all, u 
 you are likely to fet out esjjty, are you nut 
 afraid of overfleeping, and does not that iear 
 keep you upon the watch, fo that you are 
 commonly up and ready before die porter 
 comes to fummon you? Reader! if tins be 
 your cafe, how furprifed wilt you be to hear 
 that the Travellers to the for country have not 
 half your prudence, though bound on a jour- 
 ney of infinitely more importance, to a land 
 where nothing can be lent after them, and in 
 which when rhey are. once ietded, aj[ errors 
 are irretrievable. 
 
 I obferved that thefe pilgrims,, inftead of 
 being on the watch, left they Ihould be or- 
 dered off unprepared, inftead of laying up 
 anyprovifion, or ever making memorandums 
 of what they would be likely to want, f petit 
 iiiuil of their time in crowds, either in the 
 
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 way of trafnc or diverfion. At |fj|, when 1 
 faw them fp much engaged In convening with 
 each other, I thought it a good fign, and 
 Iiftened attentively to their talk, not doubting 
 but the chief turn of it would be about the 
 climate, or treafures, or fociety they fnould 
 probably tneet wi:h in the far country. I 
 fuppofcd they might be alto difcuffing about 
 the bell and fafeil road to it, and that each was 
 availing himfclf of the knowledge of bis 
 neighbour, bn a fubjed of equal importance 
 to all. ] liilentd to every party, but in fcarce- 
 Jy any did I hear one word about the land to 
 which they were bound, though it was their 
 home, where their whole infereft, expedition, 
 and tnfttrritmtee Jay ; to which alio great part 
 of their friends were gone before, and whither 
 they were uire all "the reft would follow. 
 Their whole talk was about the bufmefs, or 
 the pleafures, or the fafhions, of the 8 range 
 country which they were merely paffing 
 through, and in which they had not one foot 
 of land which they were fure of calling their 
 own for the next cjuafrer of an hour. What 
 little eftate they had w 7 as fcrfonal and not real, 
 and that was a mortgaged, life hold tenement 
 of clay, not properly their own, but only 
 lent to them on a fnort uncertain leafe, of 
 which three fedie years and ten was confidered 
 as the longeil period, and vecv few indeed 
 lived in it to the end of the term; for this 
 
 was 
 
was always at the will of the Lord, tort 
 of whofe prerogative it was, that he comer 
 takeaway the icafe at plea fare, knockdown 
 the ftouteft tenement at a fittgte blow, and 
 turnout the poor, fiiivenng, helulc^ tenant 
 naked, to that far country for whicu U hM 
 made no provision, Sometimes, tp order to 
 quicken the Pilgrim in his preparations, tac 
 Lord would break down the tenement by. flaw 
 degrees, fometirnes he would let it tumble by 
 its own natural decay, for q$ it wa, only Mm 
 to laft a certain term, it would fometima grew 
 fo uncomfortable by increafiag dilapidations 
 even before the ordinary ieaie was out, that 
 the lodging was hardly worth keeping, thouga 
 the tenant could feidorn be per folded to think 
 fo, butclum* to it to the huh Full the tlatcH 
 on the top "of the tenement changed colour, 
 then it fell off and left the root bare, then 
 " the grinders ceafed becaufe they were few;" 
 then the windows became fo darkned that the 
 owner could fcarcely fee through them, then 
 one prop fell away/ then another, then the 
 uprights became bent, and the whole fabric 
 trembled and tottered, with every other 
 fymptom. of a tailing houfe. On feme occa- 
 fio;;S the Lord ordered his mefifcngers, of which 
 he had a great variety, to batter, injure, de - 
 face, and Vlriaoft demolirti the frail building 
 even while it feemed new and ftrong ; this was 
 what the landlord called jiving warning; but 
 
 many 
 
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 many a tenant would not take it, and was fb 
 fond of (laying where he was, even under all 
 tbefe inconveniencies, that at laft he was call: 
 out by ejedhnent, not being prevailed on to 
 leave his dwelling in a proper manner, though 
 one would have thought the fear of being tur- 
 ned out would have whetted his diligence in 
 preparing for a better and move enduring inheri- 
 tance. For though the people were only te- 
 nants at will in thefe crazy tenements, yet 
 through the goodnefs of the fame Lord, they 
 were allured that he never turned them out of 
 thefe habitations before he had on his part 
 provided for them a better, fo that there was 
 not fuch another landlord in the world; and 
 though their prefent dwelling was but frail, 
 being oi.ly flight ly run up to ferve the occa- 
 sion, yet they might hold their future pofleflion 
 by a moil certain tenure ; the word of the Lord 
 jhioifelf, which was entered in a covenant, or 
 title-deed, confining of many fheets, and lie* 
 caufe a great many gord things were given a- 
 way in it, a book was made of which every 
 foul might get a copy. This indeed had not 
 always been the cafe, becaufe, till a few ages 
 back, there had been a iort of monopoly in 
 the cafe, and tk the wife and prudent/* that is, 
 the cunning and fraudful had hid thefe things 
 from the " babes and fucklings," that is, from 
 the low and ignorant, and many frauds had 
 been pradifed, an.4 the poor had been cheated 
 
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 of their right, fo that not being allowed to re id 
 and iuctee for themfelves, they had b?en fadiy 
 impofed upon; but all thefe tricks had been 
 put an end to more than two hundred years 
 when I pa (Ted through the country, and the 
 meHqeft man who could, read might then have 
 n copy, fo that he might fee himfelf what he 
 had ro truft to, and even thofe who could not 
 read, might hear it read once or twice every 
 week at leaft without pay. But it furprifed 
 me to fee how few comparatively made ufe of 
 thefe advantages. Of thofe whovfoi a copy, 
 many laid it careiefsly by, exprefied a general 
 belief in the truth of the title-deed, a general 
 fatisfaaion that they fliould come in for a (hare 
 of the inheritance/a general good, opinion of 
 the Lord whole word it was, and a general 
 difppfition to take his promife upon truft, al- 
 ways however intending at a convenient feafon 
 to inquire father into the matter, and this ne- 
 glect of theirs was conftrued into a forfeiture 
 of the inheritance* 
 
 At the end of this country lay the vaft gulf 
 mentioned before ; it was fnadowed over by a 
 broad and thick cloud, which prevented the 
 pilgrims from feeing in a difHndt manner what 
 was doing behind it, yet fuch beams of bright- 
 nefs now and then darted through the cloud as 
 enabled thofe who ufed a telefcope provided 
 for that purpofe, to fee the juhftance of things 
 
■fo/W /or ; but it was not every one who could 
 make ufe of this telefcope; no eye indeed was 
 naturally difpofed to it ; but an earnell ddlre 
 of getting a glimpfe of the invifible re dines, 
 gave fuch a flrength and fteadineis to the eye, 
 as enabled it to diicern many things which 
 could not be feen by the natural fight. Abov^ 
 the cloud was this Infer iption, The things which 
 are feen are temporal hut the things 'which are 
 not feen are eternal Of thefe laft many glori- 
 ous defcriptions have been given, but as thofe 
 fplendors were at a diflance, and as the pil- 
 grims m general did not care to uie the tele- 
 fcope, thefe difiant glances made lit tip im- 
 preffion. The glorious inheritance winch lay 
 beyond die cloud, was called Tht ihings ab,ve y 
 while a multitude of trifling objects, which 
 appeared contemptibly fmall when Jnoked at # 
 through the telefcope were cared i he things 
 below. Now as we know it is nearnefs which 
 gives fize and bulk to any object, it was not 
 wonderful that thefe ill judging pilgrims were 
 more ftruck with thefe baubles and trifles, 
 whichi by lying clofe at hand, were vifib:c and 
 tempting to the naked eye, and which m ;de 
 up the fum of The things below, than with the 
 remote glories of T; \e things above ; but this 
 was chiefly owing to their not making ufe of 
 the telefcope, through which, if you examin- 
 ed thoroughly Teethings below, they feemcd to 
 
 fhrink almoft down to nothing, while The 
 
 things 
 
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 things above appeared the more beautiful and 
 vaff the more the tclefcope was ufed. But 
 the furprifing part of the flory was this,^not 
 that the pilgrims were captivated at firfi: fight 
 with "The. things below, for that was natural 
 enough, but that when they had fried them all 
 over and over, and found them felves deceived 
 and dilappoimed in almoft every one of them, 
 it did not at all leffen their fondnefs, and they 
 grafped at them again with the fame eager nefs 
 as he fore. 'There were fome gay fruits which 
 looked alluring, but on being opened in (lead 
 of a kernel they were found ic^contain rotten- 
 nefs, and' thofe which feemed the fulled often 
 proved on trial to be quite hollow and empty. 
 Thofe which were nwlt templing to the eve 
 were often found to be wormwood to the tafte, 
 or poifon to the ftamaeh, and many flowers 
 that feemed moil bright and gay had a worm 
 gnawing at the root. 
 
 Among the chief attractions of Teethings 
 behw were certain little lumps of yellow clay, 
 on which almolt every eye and every heart 
 was fixed. When I faw the variety of ufes 
 to which this clay could be converted, and the 
 fefped which was fhewn to thofe who could 
 fcrape together the greateft number of pieces, 
 1 did not much wonder at the general defire 
 to pick up fome of them. But when I beheld 
 the anxietv, the wakefuinefs, the competiti- 
 
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ons, the contrivance?, the tricks, the frauds, 
 the fcuffling, the pufning, the turmoiling, the 
 kicking, the fhoving, the cheating, the cir- 
 cumvention, the envy, the malignity, which 
 was excited by a defire to poflefs this article ; 
 when I faw the general fcramble among thofe * 
 who had little to get much, and of thofe who 
 had much to get more, then 1 could not help 
 applying to thefe people a Proverb in ufe 
 among us, that gold may le bought too dear. 
 Though I faw that there were various forts of 
 baubles which engaged the hearts of different 
 Travellers, fuch as an di of red or blue 
 ribbon, for which fome were content to for- 
 feit their future inheritance, committing the 
 fin of Efau without his temptation of hunger; 
 yet the yellow clay 1 found was the grand ob- 
 jedl for which moft hands fcrambled and mod f 
 fouls were rifked. One thing was extraordi- 
 nary, that the nearer theie j.eo; lew* re to be- 
 1 ing turned out of their tenement, the fonder 
 they grew of thefe pieces ctf clay, lo th it I 
 naturally concluded that they meant to t ke 
 the clay with them to the far country ; but I 
 foon learnt this clay was not current t here, the 
 Lord having declared to thefepiigrims that as 
 they had brought nothing into this world, they 
 could carry nothing out, 
 
 1 inquired of the different people who were 
 raifing the various heaps of clay, fome of a 
 
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 larger, foire of a fmaller fize, why they dif- 
 covered fa eh unremitting anxiety, and for 
 whom ? Some whofe piles were immenfe, told 
 me they were heaping up for their children ; 
 this 1 thought very right, till on carting my' 
 eyes round, I obferved many of the children 
 of theft very people had large Heaps of their 
 own. Others told me it w as for their grand- 
 children ; but on enquiry 1 found thefe were 
 not yet born, and m many cafes there was 
 Tittle chance thai they eve? would. The truth, 
 on a clofe examination, proved to be, that the 
 true genuine headers really heaped for them- 
 fdves ; that it was in fact neither for friend 
 or child, but to gratify an inordinate appe- 
 tite of their own. Nor was I much furprifed 
 after this to fee thefe yellow hoards at length 
 canker, and the ritfi of them become a witrtejs 
 agatnjt ike hoarder s 7 and eai then flejh as it were 
 fire. 
 
 Many however who had fet out with a high 
 heap of their father's railing, before they had 
 got one third of their journey had fcarcely a 
 lingle piece left. As 1 was wondering what 
 had caufed thefe enormous piles to vaniili in 
 fo Ihort a time, ] fpied fcaltered up and down 
 the country all forts of odd inventions, fur 
 feme or other of which the vain poffeilors of 
 the great heaps of clay had trucked and bar- 
 tered them away in fewer hours than their an- 
 
 jceftors 
 
ceftors had fpent years in getting them toge- 
 ther. O what a ftrange unaccountable medley 
 it was! and what was ridiculous enough, f 
 obferved that the greater! quantity of the clay 
 was always exchanged for things that were of 
 no uie that 1 could difcover, owing I fuppofe 
 to my ignorance of the manners of that conn- 
 I r y. 
 
 In one i h.ee 1 law large heaps exhaufted in 
 order to fejt two idle pampered horfes a run- 
 ning; but the vvoril part of the joke was, the 
 hories did oot run to fetch or carry anything, 
 but merely, to let the gazers fee which could 
 run fafteih Now ibis gift of fwiftnefs, exer- 
 cifed to bo one ufeful purpofe, was only one 
 out of many inftances of talents ufed to no end. 
 In another place I faw whole piles of the clay f 
 fpent to maintain long ranges of buildings 
 full of dogs, on provisions which would have 
 nicely hncned ibme thoufands of pilgrims 
 who 'fadiy wanted fattening, and whofe rag- 
 ged tenements were out at elbows, for want 
 of a little help to repair them. Some of the 
 piles were regularly pulled down once in feven 
 years in order to corrupt certain needy pil- 
 grims to belie their confeiencies. Others were 
 -fpent in playing with white ft iff' bits of paper 
 painted over with red and black fpots^ 
 which 1 thought there mud be fome conjw- 
 incr became the very touch of thefe painted 
 
 pafte- 
 
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 pafiehoards made the heaps fly from one to 
 anodier, and back again :o the "fame, in a way 
 that natural eaufjs coul j not account for. 
 There wis another proof that there muft be 
 lome magic in this bufmefs, which was that 
 if a pafieboard with reJ fpotsfeJJ into a hand 
 which wanted a biack or^ t fie perfon chang- 
 ed colour, his^eyes flafhed fire, and he diico- 
 vered other fymptoms of rnadnefr, which 
 fcewed there was iome witchcraft in the cafe. 
 Thefe clean little paiTtboards, as harmless as 
 they looked, had the wonderful power of pd~ 
 ling down the higher! piles in lefs time than 
 all the other carries pur together. ] obfervfcd 
 many fmali p^s were given in exchange for 
 
 , an enchanted liquor, which when the pur- 
 chafer had drank to a Jittie excefs/he loft all 
 
 i power of managing the reft of his heap with* 
 .out lo/ang the love of it. 
 
 Now I found it was the opinion of foher 
 ; pilgpms, that either hoarding the day or 
 •trucking it for any fwch purpofes as t&e 
 above, was thought exadily the fame offence 
 ■in the eyes of the Lord, and it was expecled 
 
 come under his more 
 immediate jurifdidion in the far country, the 
 penalty annexed to hoarding and fqiranderina 
 would be nearly the fame. While I examin- 
 ed the countenances of the owners of the 
 
 heap?, 
 
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 heaps, I pbferved that thofe who I well knew 
 never intended to make any ufe at all of their 
 heap, were far more terrified at the thought 
 of bfing it, or of being torn from it, than 
 thofe who were employing it in the moft 
 ufefui manner. Thofe who beft knew what 
 to do with it, fet their hearts leaft upon it,, 
 and were always moft willing to leave it. 
 But fuch riddles were common in this odd 
 country. 
 
 Now I wondered whythefe Pilgrims, who 
 were naturally madeereft with an eye form- 
 ed to look up to the things above, yet had 
 iheireyes almofl conftantiy bvnt in the other 
 direction rivetted to the earth, and fattened 
 on t Lings below, juft like thofe animals who 
 walk on all four. I was told they had not 
 always been fubjedt to this weaknefs of fight 
 and pronenefs to earth: That they had on- 
 finally been upright and beautiful, having 
 been created after the image of the Lord who 
 was himfelfthe perfection of beauty, that he 
 had placed them in a far fuperior lituation 
 which he had given them in perpetuity, but 
 that their anceftors fell from it through pride 
 and carelefTnefs; that upon this the freehold 
 was taken away, they loft their orgmal 
 flrength, brightnefs and beauty, and were 
 driven out into this ftrange country ; where 
 however they had every opportunity given 
 
 them 
 
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 theai of recovering their health, and the 
 Lord's favour and likenefs, for they were be- 
 come To disfigured, and were grown fo unlike 
 him, that you would hardly believe that they 
 were his own children, though, in fome, the 
 refemblance was become again vifible. The 
 Lord, however, was fo merciful, thatinflead 
 of giving them up to the dreadful confluen- 
 ces of their own folly, as he might have done 
 without any impeachment ot his juflice, he 
 gave them immediate comfort, and promifed 
 them, that in due time, his own Son fhould 
 come down and reflore them to the future 
 inheritance which he fhould purchafe for 
 them. And now it was that in order to keep 
 up their fpirits, after they had lofl their eflate 
 through the folly of their ancefiors, that he 
 began to give them a part of their former Ti- 
 tle Deed. He continued to fend them portions 
 of it from time, to time by different faithful 
 fervants, whom, however, thefe ungrateful 
 people generally ufed ill, and fome of whom 
 they murdered. But for all this the Lord was 
 fo very forgiving, that he at length fent thefe 
 mutineers a Proclamation oi full and free 
 pardon by his Son, who, though they ufed 
 him in a more cruel manner than they had 
 done any of his fervants, yet after having 
 fitiifbed tte work his Father had given him to do, 
 went back into the far country to prepare a 
 place for all them who believe in him ; and 
 
 there 
 
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 there lie (till lives, tvgging and pleading for 
 thofe unkind people whom he fi iU loves and 
 forgives, and will . red ore to the purclufed in- 
 heritance on the eafy terms of their being 
 heartily forry for what they have done, and 
 reforming their pradiee, thoroughly defirgus 
 of pardon and convinced that m h able arid 
 fitting to jave to the iitmoft all them that come 
 unto him. 
 
 I faw indeed that many old offenders ap- 
 peared to be forry for -what they had done ; 
 that is, they did not like to be punifhed for it. 
 They were willing enough to be delivered 
 from the penalty of their ftri, but they did 
 not heartily wifh to be delivered from the 
 power of it. Many declared in the mod pub- 
 lic manner, once every week, that they were' 
 very forry the^y had done amifs; but it was 
 not enough to declare their forrow ever fo of- 
 ten if they gavfc no other fign of their peni- 
 tence, for there was fo little truth in them, 
 that the Lord required other proofs of their 
 fincerity befide their own word, for they 
 often lied with their lips and diffembied with 
 their tongue. But thofe who profeifed to be 
 penitents were neither allowed to raife heaps 
 of clay, bv circumventing their neighbours, 
 or to have great piles lying by them uieiefs, 
 nor muft they barter thern for any of thofe v 
 idle vaniti-s, which reduced the heaps on a 
 
 fudden : 
 
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 iudden: for I found that among the grand 
 articles of future reckoning, the ufe they 
 hud made of the heaps would be a princi- 
 pal one. ? V ' \ ' *' 
 
 I was fbrry to obferve many of the fairer 
 part of thefe Pilgrims fpend too much of their 
 heaps in adorning and beautifying their tene- 
 ments of clay, in painting and white wafhmg, 
 and enamelling them. All thefe tricks, How- 
 ever, did not pre ferve them from decay, 
 and when they grew old, they' even looked 
 worfe for all this coft and varnifh, Some, 
 however, a fled a more fenfibie part, and' 
 ipent no more upon their mouldering tene- 
 ments than juft to keep them whole and 
 clean, and in good repair, which is what 
 4 every tenant ought to do ; and 1 obferved 
 that thofe who were moderate in the care of 
 their own tenements, were moil attentive to 
 repair and wsrm the ragged tenements of 
 others. But none did this with much zeal or 
 acceptance, but thofe who had acquired a 
 habit of overlooking the things below, and 
 alfo by the conftant ufe of the Teiefcope, 
 had got .their natural weak and dim fight fo 
 fl rengthened, as to be able to difcern pretty 
 ditlinftly the nature of the things above, 
 The habit of fixing their eyes on thefe glo- 
 ries, made all the fhining trifles which com- 
 poftd ihe mafs of things be lew at laff appear 
 
 in 
 
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 in their own diminutive littlenefs. For it 
 was in this cafe particularly true, that things 
 are only big- or little in comparifon ; and 
 there was no other way of making the things 
 below appear as fmall as they reaily were, but 
 by comparing them by means of the Tele- 
 fcope with the things above. But 1 obferved 
 that the falfe judgment of the Pilgrims ever 
 kept pace with their wrong practices, for 
 thofe who kept their eyes fattened on the 
 things helow, were reckoned wife in their 
 generation, while the few who looked forward 
 to the future glories, were accounted by 
 the buftlers or heapers, to be either fools 
 or mad. 
 
 Well— mod of thefe Pilgrims went on 
 adorning their tenements, adding . to their 
 heaps, grafping the things below as \i they 
 would never let them go, (hutting their eyes 
 inflead of ufipg their telefcope, and negiedt- 
 ing their Title Deed, as if it was the Parch- 
 ment of another man's eftate and net their 
 own ; till one after another each felt his tene- 
 ment tumbling about his ears.— Oh ! then 
 what a bufv, buftlmg, anxious, terrifying, 
 diftradting moment was that! What adea; ot 
 kifinefs was to be done, and what a ft range 
 time was this to do it in! Now to fee the 
 confuhon and difmay occauoned by having, 
 left every thing to the laft minute. Firtt 
 J fome 
 
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 fome one was fent for to make over the yellow 
 heaps to another, which the heaper now found 
 would be of no ufe to himfelf in (hooting the 
 gulf; a transfer which ought to have been 
 made while the tenement was found. Then 
 there was a confutation between two or three 
 mafons 'at once, perhaps to try to patch up 
 the walls, and (Irengthen the props, and (lop 
 the decays of the tumbling tenement; but 
 not till the mafons were forced to declare it 
 was paft repairing, fa truth they were rather 
 too apt to keep back) did the tenant ferioufly 
 think it was time to pack up, prepare, and 
 begone. Then what fending ior the wife 
 men who profefled to explain the Title Deed ! 
 And oh, what remorfe that they had riegle&ed 
 4 to examine it till their fenfes were too con- 
 fufed for fo weighty a bulinefs ! What re- 
 proaches, or what exhortations toothers to 
 look better after their own affairs ! Even to 
 the wifeft of the inhabitants the falling of 
 their tenements was a folemn thing; foiemn 
 but not furprifing; they had long been pack- 
 ing up and preparing ; they praifed their 
 Lord's goodnefs that they had been fuffered 
 to flay fo long ; many acknowledged the 
 mercy of their frequent warnings, and con- 
 fe(Ted that thole very dilapidations which 
 had made the houfe uncomfortable had 
 been a blefTing, as it had fet them on dili- 
 Hgent preparation for their future inheritance; 
 
 had 
 
had made them mere earned m examining, 
 their title to tfi and had fet them on fuch a 
 frequent application to the telefcope, that 
 The things above had feemed every day nearer 
 and nearer. Thefe defired not to be uh- 
 chalked but to be chathed upon y for W/y knew 
 that if their frail Tabernacle was diffolved 
 they had an houfe not made with hands, eternal 
 in the heavens* ^ 
 
 THE END. 
 
JUST PUBLISHED, AND SOLD BT 
 
 ~ WILLIAM WATSON and SON 
 
 No, 7, Capel-Street, 
 
 The Two Wealthy Farmers ift Part Price id 
 
 Ditto ad Part - - I 
 Ditto, 3d Part, and a New Song on an old Story 1 
 
 Ditto, 4th Part, and a Poetical Tale - 1 
 
 Ditto, 5th Part - - i 
 
 Ditto, 6th Part - 1 
 
 w Ditto, 7th Part - - * i 
 
 Two Shoe makers , 1 ft Part - 1 
 
 % Ditto, 2d Part - 1 
 
 Ditto, 3d Part •» - - * 1 
 
 Ditto, 4th Part - - * v /-. t 
 
 r Dialogue between James Stock and William 
 
 Simp Ton - - . • - I 
 
 Shepherd of Salifbury Plain, ift Part - t 
 
 Ditto, 2d Part - * ~ I 
 
 «Hiftory of Tom White the Foftilion, 1 ft Part 1 
 
 Ditto, 2d Part - I 
 
 Hiftory of Mary Wood the Houfe-maid 1 
 
 The Hiftory of Charles Jones the Foot-man 1 
 
 Beggarly Boy I 
 
 Good Mothers Legacy I 
 
 Hiftory of John Doyle - 1 
 
 Two Soldiers - 1 
 
 Life of William Baker - I 
 The Gamefter, and the Story of finful Sally, 1 
 
 The Pilgrims, an Allegory « 1 
 
 Path to Riches and Happinefs * r 
 
 The General RefurreSion - - oh 
 
 The Two Sifters - * * - oh 
 
 ^ The happy Waterman - - Oh 
 
 Husbandry Moralized - 1 oh 
 
 The Carpenter - oh 
 
 The Apprentice's Monitor oh 
 
 The Horfe Race - oh 
 
 The Dram Sh©p « - « oh 
 
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