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ion. Intemperance and lust breed diseases, which, propogated, spoil the strain of nation. Tillotson.

A student. [R.] W. Irving. Lipsius was a great studier of the stoical philosophy. Tillotson.

hey would truly observe them, substantially religious toward God, chastle, and temperate. Tillotson.

Obstinate; intractable. Things are as sullen as we are. Tillotson.

as we could possibly, supposing it were, we ought not to make any doubt of its existence. Tillotson.

y an infallibility upon supposition that if a thing be true, it is imposible to be false. Tillotson. He means are in supposition. Shak.

the promise of eternal life on the condition of obedience and holiness of life. [Archaic] Tillotson.

No comfortable expectations of another life to sustain him under the evils in this world. Tillotson.

udibras. Let not temporal and little advantages sway you against a more durable interest. Tillotson.

e same thing variously expressed; for wisdom and understanding are synonymous words here. Tillotson.

ood life, because taken from this consideration of the most lasting happiness and misery. Tillotson.

er to evil. "Those who are bent to do wickedly will never want tempters to urge them on." Tillotson. So glozed the Tempter, and his proem tuned. Milton.

want. Prov. xxi. 5. The laws of our religion tend to the universal happiness of mankind. Tillotson.

property." Burke. The civil authority should be tender of the honor of God and religion. Tillotson.

A portion or part; something. Wieked men who understand any thing of wisdom. Tillotson.

Full of torment; causing, or accompainied by, torment; excruciating. [R.] Tillotson.

write; to fling. To toss and fling, and to be restless, only frets and enreges our pain. Tillotson.

m it. Prov. xxii. 6. The first Christians were, by great hardships, trained up for glory. Tillotson.

e these evils the occasion of a greater good, by turning them to advantage in this world. Tillotson. When the passage is open, land will be turned most to cattle; when shut, to sheep. Sir W. Temple.

; as, he twitted his friend of falsehood. This these scoffers twitted the Christian with. Tillotson. Æsop minds men of their errors, without twitting them for what is amiss. L'Estrange.