A particular Addref to Young Perfons. 1.57 pable of diflinguifhing moral chara ±ers, S ERN'. of looking into their own tempers, and fix- IX. ing the maxims by which they fhall govern `'''''f`'d their whole behaviour. And I would be- feech you above all things to remember that you are accountable to yourfelves, and to regard the approbation of your own minds preferably to that of pa- rents or any other in the World. The frowns of a father or a friend are not fo kiting, nor can affe& you fo deeply as the reproaches of an accufing confcience ; be- fides, the former may be avoided by the arts of difhonefty, but the more fuccefsful you are in impaling on the world, the more ob- noxious fill to the cenfure of your own fpirits, 'which are the candle of the Lord, fearching the innermof parts, Prov. xx. 27. Now there is not any thing can give a more dangerous, indeed a mortal wound to your integrity than fpeaking guile. I appeal to yourfelves, can you review it otherwife than with fhame and confufion ? But if you ,have been once overtaken in fuch a fault, do not turn away your eyes from the horrid fight, nor fuller your attention to be divert- ed by any amufement ; force your guilty mind to entertain itfelf with a painful view of its own deformed offspring; give full V o L. IV. S (cope
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