I. LOVE AND ANGER.

I SAW two children fighting together in the street. The father of the one passing by, fetched his son away and corrected him; the . other lad was left without any check, though both were equally faulty in the fray. I was half offended, that being guilty alike, they were not punished alike: but the parent would only meddle with him over whom he had an undoubted dominion, to whom he bare an unfeigned affection.

The wicked sin, the godly smart most in this world. God singleth out his own sons, and beateth them by themselves; whom he loveth he chasteneth. [Heb. xii. 6.] Whilst the ungodly, preserved from affliction, are reserved for destruction. It being needless that their hair should be shaved with a hired razor, [Is. vii. 20.] whose heads are intended for the axe of divine justice. [Matth. iii. 10.]