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the Samaritan ftands ftill, fheds a tear, but can no more; for there is none to help; and the poor wretched and unbefriended creature is left to moan in unregarded forrow, and to fink under the weight of his burden.

But fuppofe the Law promulged, and the Court erected. The Judge is feated, the Jury fworn, the indictment read, the caufe debated, and a verdict found for the plaintiff. Yet what coft or damage? What recompence for lofs fuftained? In actions of humanity, with or without law, Satisfaction may be made. various ways you can make amends to a Man for the injuries you have done him. You know his wants, and you may relieve him. You

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may give him cloaths, or food, or money. You may raise him to a higher station, and make him happier than before you afflicted him. You may be "feet to the J. lame, and eyes to the blind. You may entertain him, keep him company, or supply him with every comfort, convenience, and amusement of life, which he is capable of enjoying. And thus may you make fome atonement for the injury which you have done unto a Man; and by thy affiduity and future tenderness, thou mayeft perhaps obtain his pardon, and palliate thine own offence. But what is all this to the injured Brute? If by thy paffion or malice, or sportive cruelty, thou haft broken his Limbs, or deprived

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deprived him of his Eye-fight, how wilt thou make him amends? Thou canst do nothing to amuse him. He wants not thy money nor thy cloaths. Thy converfation can do him no good. Thou haft obftructed his means of getting fubfiftence; and thou wilt hardly take upon thyfelf the pains and trouble of procuring it for him, (which yet by the rule of justice thou art bound to do). Thou haft marred his little temporary happiness, which was his All to him. Thou haft maimed, or blinded him for ever; and haft done him an irreparable injury.

But here it will be fuggefted, that there are fome MEN in the world as unfortunately circumftanced,

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and as far from the means of redress, as the unhappy Brute now before us. It may be fo. it remembered, that a Day will come, when all the injuries which an innocent Man can fuffer from the hand of violence and oppreffion will be overbalanced in a future and happy ftate, where our light affliction, which in comparison of eternity "is but for a moment, fhall work for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory?" This is the hope and confidence of a man. And a most comfortable reflection it is indeed to the virtuous and innocent fufferer, who knows that he has an almighty Patron and Avenger, who will finally cause that the malice and wickedness of his ene

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mies here, shall at length promote the degree of his glory hereafter. But what hope, what glimpse of recompence hereafter awaiteth the afflicted brute? An hereafter for a Brute, a recompence for a Beast has a ftrange found in the ears of a man. We cannot bear the thought of it. Injustice itself is a virtue in the judgment of Partiality; and in the pride of our heart we rather fay,-Let Man be happy, though all creation groan. Yet it is a truth that ought not to be concealed, that GOD is a righteous Judge; and it is prefumption in man to determine the limits of the divine goodness, However, as we have no authority to declare, and no testimony from heaven to affure us, that there is a ftate

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