Of !vJr. Henry Scougal. 4·25 on his fiekly body, and would give it fo-m~e greater n1eafure of health. How· readily would be forego his own interefis– t-o· oblige his friend, and deny hin1felf, as is well known to fon1e, even in thofe de– figns and inclinations for whichufually we have a great concern when we are once- , engaged -in then1? So far was he from de-- firing to ingrofs the love and kindnefs of .. · l1,i:s friends, that he n1ade it his bufinefs .and del.ight to propagate true friend.f'nip, and– n1ake th~m friends to _one another. And– in this he ftudied to render it the m-aft ufeful thing in the vrorld, and to make it. ferve the great ends of piety and religion. Thofe · in whom he obferved the fpirit of true piety and goodnefs, or any appearance– and likelihood of the one's having influence on, and bettering the other's life and prac-· tice, he endeavoured to bring. them into ac,..· quaintance and fan1iliarity ; to endear then1 to each other, and n1ake their friendihip ufe~ ful 'for pron1oting true piety and goodnefs, both in then1felves and others. . ~ And this . perhaps is the m0fl: effecrua] means for re– covering fon1ething of the ancient Chrifiian fpirit in the world. Many- metl1ods have been fet on foot, under pretence of ·cf- -fc&uating this· defign. In the Greek and . N n 3 - ](oma/t
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