set aside, and Usages of Piety run out of Coun|tenance, yet I will venture to recommend this old Practice, and affirm that the Lives of Mankind would be no less secure, if all the Guardians of Health should speak Peace to our Houses when they enter them, and pray for (I don't say with) all those committed to their Charge; and to this Course of private Devotion add a little more Attendance on the Publick. But this by the Way.It remains now in the last Place, to speak of this modern Practice, as it tends to promote Vice and Immorality; I believe it will be rea|dily granted me, that there is no one Thing so universally dreaded, as the Disease, which this strange Method of Practice pretends to e|lude. But there is this of Good attending, that the Fear of it is an happy Restraint upon many People, who seem not so sensible of superiour Obligations, to keep themselves in Temperance and Sobriety, and want no other Encouragement to give a Loose to their In|clinations, than to be free from Apprehensi|ons of this uncertain Visitor. Most Mens Acquaintance, I am apt to think, will furnish them with Instances of Persons who would gladly give into the Extravagance of these licentious Cities, to the apparent hazard of 0