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The SUPPLEMENT to the GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE for

the Year 1737, containing the Conclufion of the Debates in Parliament,
with the Subftance of feveral Speeches not in any other Collection.

With a carious MAP of the GARDEN of EDEN.

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Mr. URBAN,

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EREWITH I Jend you the Character of a good Man, or an Attempt to reconcile all odious Difline. A tions amongft Chriftians, being found amongst the Manufcripts of a late deceafed Illuftrious Lady.

Yours, Ifaac Tt.

ift. A GOOD MAN is one whose Name is Chriftian, in Oppofition to Jews and Pagans; his Sirname is Catholick, to diftinguifh him from Sects and Separatifts.

2. He is one, who is neither Atheiftically profane, nor Enthufiaftically fuperftitious; but ferioufly religious, according to the Canon of the Scripture, and foberly conformable according to the Law of the Land; giving to Cæfar the Things that are Cafar's, and to God the Things that are God's.

3. One, that thinks it highly reafonable to prefer the Wisdom of publick Authority, in appointing the external Modes and Circumftances of divine Worship, before the Dictates of a private Judgment; And therefore will not difturb the Peace of the Church in contending paffionately for, or against little Things.

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4. One, who believes the Doctrine of the Communion of Saints to be Apoftolical, and therefore thinks it his Duty, fometimes to maintain a Chriftian Correfpondence, and religious Communion, with fober, wife, and good Men, who hold the Foundation, tho' they differ about the Pinnacles of the Temple.

5. One, who is a Chriftian of a primitive Temper; doth not fet Bounds to Religion, and circumfcribe it to Time or Place, as if it had taken fanctuary only on holy Ground; but looks upon external Reverence, and internal Devotion, as the beft Ingredients of divine Worship, whether it be perform'd at Jerufalem, or upon the Mountains of C Samaria.

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6. One, whofe Faith is agreeable to the Doctrine of the holy Apoftles, and his Life conformable to the Example of the bleffed JESUS. In all his Difcourfes promotes Peace and Purity, and wisheth the Terms of Chriftian Communion were fo comprehenfive, that all the World might with one Mouth glorify the eternal God.

7. He is a Man of a fober Piety, and well temper'd Zeal, doth not baptife his Religion with the Name of a Sect, nor efpoufe the Quarrel of a Party nor is he guilty of Corinthian Vanity,

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crying up a Paul, Apollos, or a Cephas:
But looks upon it, as the great Defign
of Chriftianity, to make Men good;
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matters not what Church they are of,
because a bad Man can be faved in none.

8. He is one that lives a godly, righteous, and fober Life, as if the Commandments had a Relation to the Creed; doth not put off his Religion with his Sunday's Suit, and make it the Business only for Canonical Hours, adjourning his Piety until the Bells excite him to a new Fit of Devotion.

from the royal Road of Loyalty, Reafon, and Confcience, but keeps ftrait forwards, treads firmly being fecure of the Ground he goes on, and is neither afraid nor afhamed of his own Actions, fo that he can bid Defiance to Danger, bear up his Head against a Volley of unjuft Slanders, and smile upon a Volley of unjuft Perjuries, being compaffed with a brazen Wall of Innocence, and B having within his Breaft a thousand Witneffes.

9. One, who by an univerfal Converfe endeavours to enlarge the Territories of his Reason, and to knock off the Shackles of Ignorance and PrejuC dice, contracted by Education and private Examples; proving all Things, he holds faft that which is good, and rejects all Fanatick Principles, whether they come from Rome, Munster, or any other Quarter.

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10. One, who keeps his Confcience tender; yet not fo raw, as to stick at any Thing which a mif-inform'd Underftanding may fuppofe to be unlawful. If he be guilty of any Excefs, it is in his Charity towards those who differ from him in their Aprehenfions about facred Things, knowing it to be a moft E unlikely Way, by beating out Men's Brains to inform their Understandings.

11. He is one that is chearful with

out Levity; fober without Formality;

Prudent without Stratagem; religions without Affectation; can be fociable without Drunkenness; angry without Swearing and zealous without Dif puting.

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12. One, in whom Nature, Grace, Piety, and Prudence, are excellently poised, and it may be a Question whether his Wisdom or his Goodness be G moft eminent, becaufe both are covered with a Veil of Humility.

13. He can walk in the Furnace of an afflicted Church, without fmelling of Papal Superftition; or being fing'd with Babel's Confufion; neither bowing to the Altar of Baal, or worshiping the Calves of Bethel.

14. He is one that hath no By-ways

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15. He is one, that can express his Loyalty, better than by Debauchery, and had rather invoke the Majefty of Heaven with a Book in his Hand than a Brimmer, trembles to hear Men pray for their own Damnation, fearing left their Prayers fhould be answered.

16. In a Word, he is one that mends the Time more by his good Examples, than by his Cenfures; knows that the beft Men are the beft Subjects, and when ill Men by fecret Confpiracies, fcandalous Immoralities, and venomous Pamphlets, are plotting the Ruin of the Kingdom, the Language of his Heart and Tongue is,

GOD SAVE THE KING.

The following Effay will aptly enough Juc-
ceed the foregoing: But as we were fa
vour'd with it fome Months ago; no
particular Reflections could be defign'd.
Mr. URBAN,

Icks on Tragedies, that to draw
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has been rightly obferv'd by the
Criticks

a faultless Hero, is to draw a Monster :
It is, to fet forth a Character which
never has been feen in Life, and which
cannot poffibly exift. Infirmities are
infeparable from Human Nature; and
to be the beft of the Species, is only to
have the feweft and moft harmless De-
fects. It may be faid without a So-
lecifm, that it is no Imperfection in a
Man or Woman to be imperfect: For,
to be otherwife, is to be out of the
Condition of our Being, and cease to
be Man.

If we look narrowly into Men's Tempers, and the Complexion of their Minds, we fhall feldom find great Talents but accompanied with great Allays.

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