_In conferring a favour nothing should be more avoided than pride_." 12.

_God's impartial Goodness_.
"He maketh His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust." (Matt.v.

45.) Seneca (_On Benefits_, i.

1): "_How many are unworthy of the light! and yet the day dawns_." Id.vii.

31: "_The gods begin to confer benefits on those who recognize them not, they continue them to those who are thankless for them....
They distribute their blessings in impartial tenor through the nations and peoples;...