the world in mind of that awful futurity which awaits them, who is to anounce what may be the fatal consequences of every devia|tion from the rules of duty, and who is him|self to set the example of the most exact con|formity, is the messenger of tidings, which cannot, in propriety, be delivered either with levity or indifference. His mind is continu|ally occupied with what is too grand and solemn, to leave any room for the impres|sions of those frivolous objects, which fill up the attention of the dissipated and the gay. We readily feel therefore, that, inde|pendent of custom, there is a propriety in the manners which custom has allotted to this profession; and that nothing can be more suitable to the character of a clergyman, than that grave, that austere and abstracted seve|rity, which we are habituated to expect in his behaviour. These reflections are so very obvious, that there is scarce any man so in|considerate, as not, at some time, to have made them, and to have accounted to him|self in this manner for his approbation of the usual character of this order.
The foundation of the customary charac|ter of some other professions is not so obvious, and our approbation of it is founded entirely
