An enquiry into the duties of the female sex / By Thomas Gisborne.

  • Gisborne, Thomas, 1758-1846.
Date:
1813
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    happiness or in misery proportioned to the nature of their conduct in this short and preparatory scene of existence, the main object to be pursued is to inspire them with such views of things, to train them to such t'.ispositioiisand aflections, to establish thcrri in s ich principles and rules of action, as are calculated to render that future and most important state of being, a period of blessedness. Such would still have been the dictates of reason, had the lesult been likely to be unfa- vourable to happiness in the present life. Mow forcibly, then, do they press upon those who ate convinced, as is the case with all who believe in the Christian Revelation, that ‘ god- “ liness has the promise of the life which now is, as well as “ of that which is to come fej: ’ that the very same views of things, the very same affections and d.sposifons, the very same principles and ru es of action, which lead to never- en<rmg felicity hereafter, premise in the common course of events a larger portion of external comfort than is attainable by any other means : and arc act ompanied by a serenity of heart, and by a cheerful sense of the protecting care of infi- nite Power, Wist'om, and Goodness, which far more than outweigh the collected amount of all other teriestrial enjoy- ments. The chief solicitude, therefore, of every cne, who is called to fulfil the duties of tuition, ought to be this ; to engage the understanding and the affections of the pupil in favour of piety and virtue, and to detach the mind from that supreme love of woildly objects to which it is prone, by unfolding the truth, the importance, and the inherent excel- lence of the Christian religion: and by inculcating morality not as attainable by human ability without the Divine assis- tance, but as the fruit of Christian faith through the influence of the Moly Spirit; not as consisting in actions beneficial to society, without reference to the motives from which they proceed, but as flowing from an earnest desire to please the (rj 1 Tim. iv. 8.