THE

SCRINI U M,

IN

TWO VOLUMES.

BY

REBECCA EDRIDGE.

As the bee stops on every flower, collecting sweets, and stores
his hive with honey; so should meditation rest on each event,
collecting wisdom, to store the mind with virtue.

Printed by R. Gilbert, St. John's Square, London.

PREFACE.

WHOEVER writes a book has sufficient vanity to hope that it will be read by every body. Now, as nobody can read a book, however badly it may be arranged or handled, without learning something of some kind from it, every author is bound to be careful that the instruction which he conveys shall tend to some improvement in the mind and behaviour of his readers. The writer of a book tending to make his reader a worse man than he was before, is answerable for the errors