The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, October 2, 1761, Page 1

\, 164K Becel. {, \ FRIDAY ,quTo. RE 2. I761. . New-Hampthire i | - d To the PriyTEer: Every Thing that may tend to promote theGood . and Happine[s of the Public, is doubtle[s an acceptable Prefent o0 you, and will eafily find ¢ Place in your Paper. The inclofed may perkaps, oblige more, than i Your bumble Servant, &c. HEere are two forts of people very / ' common in the -..v:.rifi‘j ufim pur- £ iue a very contrary road to hap- 1 " pin€Ts inthis life, but who always %'« *go wide of its real courfe. Thefe .Are, Juch as.are provident to an excefs, or fuch @5 are never provident at all. . Fhereare of thefe kinds of people in every nider of fociety, all equally reprehenfible for *he abfardity of their conduét ; whichisever ! ¥ \nhapp¥ to themfelves, and commonly fatal 1 -0 therr fpbficrities : For where prudence is . werted, misfortune becomes embraced, and ~it offeavinfcparable but by a ftate of annihila- e, ! { . _lfl.i_s of little cenfequence to the owner, . viapextent a fortune is of, if its income is (’4.'3_ e teeded by annual expence. The firft thouf- "+ & 1'paunds an eftate becomes mortgaged for, VI Wil Bato it what a canker is to the body ; . itwill grac ually eat its way on, till it is grown A - [ L4 o < a1 friemec iable confumer. If an effe@ual |« zcr€ be.not applied to the firft ftage of the L A pndady, i progreffive effets become 1 fuck, T . v { i A ool Evi% lh.'t bl T CUCs Wiia ‘}..uv\, Cindciviis 104 & ‘.C 4 e { " A .man, therefore, may bein bad circum- ' ftaces with ten thoufand pounds a year ; as elery oneis,who is the outliver of his income. '« Poplexities and mortifications are the fure / cc fequences of fuch a fituation,with unhap- , prefs.’ to the partics, and ruin to their pof- ' geites. A man of any calling, who but {pends the wiple of all he gets, is expofed to irretricvable il o b 222 A 7% . & & This is the Firft Pa GAZETT] “' ontaining the Frefbeft Advices, that he conceives himfeif liable to fuffer; which, in the general courfe of bufinefs, wiil admit of eftimation. It the party is a clergy- man, or one who lives by a public employ- ment, that degree of {aving is more neceflary, and in a greater proportion if to be made ; becaufe their children =re commonly educated above vulgar life, and of courfe become pe- culiarly unfortunate,ir lefe tiprovided for. Where happinefs or mifery, affluence or want, refpect or reproach, are to be the con- % es of our condu, it is almoft wond- erful thptinatyention, vanity, or an eager pur- fuit of fleeting pleafures, éuld make us put i sfor the whole ) y m}y endure, and even efpofe odflelves apd thY€m to every kind of evil ; yet fuch is thefupinenefs of indolence, fuch the infatuations of folly, and fuch our avidity for enjoying, to the utmoft,the prefent time, that we feeall future views continually neglected, or wilfully facrified,by thofe who want the vigour of refolution, or the power of felf-denial. To live with fecurity of circumftances and a confcioufnefs of deferving refpet, from a right difcharge of thofe duties which are due from us to others, are the beft means for fecuring to ourfelves true temporal felicity. Ty =fe, with the bleflings of health, are our bighefl &moft lafting enjoyments : Thay are alike folid and permanent.and of courfe “pro- portionably preterable to tranfitory delights, which are often hurtiul ‘1o indulge, and as often painful to remember. The man, in any ftation of life, who fees plenty furrounding him, and with a power of poflcflion to be liberal and kind ; who fzes an offspring rifing up that he has she means of providing for, or can exercife in friendfhip the duties of a father, is he, of all others who .fiafo'fi'oz‘u, /;fixcc ‘f’flgfn“g“% e T : =2=3 Nuwms. 261 [ WEEks fincethis' PAPER é:? RS { was Xéflr[t Publith’d. » # r of the Sixth Ye Foreign and Domeflick. expeeces are dangerous, and all foolil fures are deftru@ive. A ljfe of pl Mf\. : of bufinefs are incompatible with oncf%ipgthcr; = fo he, to whom it is neceflury to thfive. : early learn to content himfelf with f faCtions, and make the duties of'h his invariable delight. e 9 Th: man who a&¥ otherwife becomes ° habitually improvidenr, the moft ruinavs gife pofition that can poiiibiy Le cuterrained 5 as itis the fource of mifcariage, and of every , kind of misfortune ; and will end, at laft,a " . that which is the worft of all others, the ré- proaches of the world, and the raproaches of himfelf. : N To the Prinwer. Eat Pleafe to infert the following 'Obfervations in your . Weekly Paper, being Matter of very great Importance, and in which all Per[ons are concerned withoat Exception. 18’s boped, motwithflanding it’s of 1 Religious Nature, that it will be excufed even by Precifisns, though appear- . ing in the public Prints, in whith W, mayhave & Jpeedy univerfal Spread, and ‘be of uni antagy te Men ; not meerly in Thingsof a t2mps kre, (uch os the Comforts of this Life, the Sfubdiing ong wies, recovering their Fortreffes and Lands, but be a Means, of everlafling Advantage o many, in a Kingdiun that knows no War, and that cannot te moved-by cid the rvik Powersof Earth and Heil. > ‘That which gave Rife to thefe aéjer'm!iam was this 3 Minilters and People at this Tim:h‘eing &t preat V‘l{i-; ance with Refpe@t to Paftoral vifi "', the Iz jer require ing it, and the former mpegleciing ' Which (#f tusre was Nothing elfe} has a threw:ning 21} 7, becaufe riance tenisto root ont Love " 15 Lhey ment of Chriltianity ; In the fift Place, he ‘deéfircs the Office a Bithop. His Motives to his Work are the Glory of God andghe good of Men. Ashe 1 n hisPreaching, fo e isin his Conveglaticn heavenly. He very much infifts on the Ne- . ».9 . ' ceffity of Regeneration, himfelf “being born’ « again. Repentance towards God, and Fairh. towards the Lord Jefus Chrift are his chief Topicks, and the Foundation of ail hi§ othef, 3L sn v rench Enze * . rin from the very firft accident that befalls ¢+ i : he may be faid to walk tottering on a ajige, trom which any falfe ftep, or the leaft ¢ er-poife, will caufe his falling 3 and when owe he is at the bottom, it is but rarely he an rife again. Inconfideration, then, isin all an érror the nolt unpardonable : And yet how many do w' fee chat are falling by it continually, and fa rificing future fecurity to an eagernefs for e1 eflive prefent enjoyment, which is always Preachings. He faithfully rebukes and re~ - - proves, as well as exhorts : Is like Micgjab '.( and Fobn Baptift, will follow the Dirc&ion of” Heaven tho’ Kings be offended. As a.’ Watchman, he is always looking out to dif, - cover the Enemy Sin, and " gives Warning -, accordingly : and reproves fathionable Siag, " * as well as thofe that are unfafthionable. Is véry ( careful to declare the wholeCouncil of G#, .41 ’ and Trembles at the* Thought of being Par- ! tial in God’s Law. His Heart is fo full6f " J o bids the faireft for happinefs ; whereas a man in perplexities, or_in dangers from invplved circumftances, can never be happy, nor ever refpectable ; He forefees misfortune to him- felt, he forbodes mifery to his family, he is reftrain’d from ats of ben: volence, is obliged to injure others 5 is neccflitated so ufe mean prevarications,or te be theopen avower of dif- honeft principles, and becomes the objeét of pity for his tolly, or of hatred for his guilt: A coadition that he is miferable,which foever iy 4 e g € a niltaken one, even when it 1s but the ex- peler of us to evil. From the many mif- cliefs that we fee arife daily from a want of - w]:ii regulating expences, one would be led . timagine,that proper eftimates of fuch kinds, a e things difficultin their nature to be made ; a:d yetit may be done by a fingle rule, very elily reduced to pradice. People who can do no mofe than jutt live, aeundertiic guidance of neceffity : But thofe v’io have choice in their power, are to obey twe laws of reafon. As a fafe guard then axainft accidents, and as a fure provifion for a: offspring, every man fhould make it a r.le to lay by a fourth parc of his yearly in- c:me o: profits, be they whatfoever they rty. This, if he is an eftated man, will ea- 4.l Jhim to malke a provifion for his children: 4nd this, ifhe is3 trader, will be fure to put . ha in afluent circumf@tances, but it will ““gatly behove the trader to make an allow- ar:ein his calculation for the loffes in bufinefs, it may prove ; and galling to refle® on, when the effe@t ot his own imprudence. It is very rarely feen,that a much mortgag- ed eftate is ever agiin retricved : Or that a man who does not foon improve his fortune by traffic, keeps long from running behind hand. To proportion expences therefore to an income, is the firft rule of prudente ; for circumftances hurt by a negle of it is the moft dangerous wound they can receive. Few people choofe to depart from a rule of ex- pence they fet out with : For ac the*fame time that it hurts their pride, they ara apt to think it weakens their credit to do fo ; an object for ferious confideration at our off fet into life. To be properly providentis a high virtue in all men, but a duty the moft abfolute and affential in thofe who have a fortune to make, and a family to provide for. In fuch people, tll they have laid a fecure foundation for affluence by induftry and ceconomy, all idle the Fear of God, that there is fcarce any Room for the Fear of Man: He is pecular- ly careful and diligent to know the’ Staté of his particular Flodk, inhis Pifaral Sgly Is like his Mafter Fefts, alter Py his Hearers if they underftand and takes their- Anfwer, and with themabout the Thing of Heaven ; knowing ‘that poral Things are Nothing'i thofe that are Spiritual and hence his Hearers rationall he is in Earneft. 1In his Sern Days has thefe Words alwi his Ears, lovef thou Me, lov thou Me, with the Charge My Sbeep, feed My Lambs fo greatly delights ia hi building uprhis Kiogdo nighted Souls from Dar; had h¢ no Wages, an