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A82335	The prodigal returned to Scotland, or, A letter, written by a gentleman, to his friend at Montrose wherein he represents, the lover's warfare, the vanity of reposing confidence in rich friends, a short historie of his own misfortunes, the desireableness of conversation, and lastly, the true character of magnanimity, and a noble ambition, and the uncertainty and contempt of riches.	Dempster, George, of Kirktounhill.	1700 (1700)	Wing D984; ESTC R212963	16,422	24

Massare in the Senate especially being contrived by his Confident Brutus And when our own Relations neither out of piety or naturality cannot conceal nor obliterate our offences or misfortunes How may we expect to be made the vox populi especially when such misrepresntati●●s flow from such a Fountain Which commonly are more easily believed and Intertain'd when they are vented by such whom others may be ap● to believe through ignorance of their disposition who speak thus That they talk so as having no dislike or prejudice against us But I being perswaded you know perfectly well what and of whom I write this I leave them to their own fate and the just reward of providence As distress makes men run where they may expect he●p And as that must be the securest harbour to which distrestest vessels make their application So I fly to the choisest of your wholsome advices as the only Asylum and Sanctuary for my aid and safety If misfortunes could make men Philosophers as Afflictions are said to make real Christians I might expect to become wise by experiencing so many But such is the innate rudeness and dullness of my genius that it cannot look through the right end of the perspective and see the Wise hand of Providence directing them Dearest Familiar I know the Premisses and Preceeding Discourse stand in no need of a Commentar to Explain the Genuine Sense thereof you knowing exactly well that it is not propper to be too plain by Discovering my Thoughts to all who may have Occasion to see me in Print but I have Endeavoured alse much as possible Clearness and Ingenuity And because you have possibly met with the like Dispensation of Providence in your Amours that I met with some Years ago I have therefore to comfort you and me taken so much Leasure from my other Bussiness as to set apart one Afternoon and write you my following Thoughts The Design of Lovers should be al 's Latent as the Springs which do inwardly move Mechanick Machins if you either consider the Nature of it or the Inconveniencies that attend a Disappointment I fancie Love proceeds from a Vehement desire of the Object in hopes of a full Satisfaction of pleasure and content therefrom Which pleasure we fondly dote upon and this Love proceedeth from Contemplation But Love may be compared to Hunger which though it is once Satisfied continues no longer so than it hath for a litle time preyd upon what was at first presented to it And like the fire is so far from being Satisfied with what is thrown into it that it is by that new Fewel not only enabled to destroy but likewise forc'd to seek more Aliment for sustaining it's wasting Rage Pleasure in Men is ane Act of the Fancy and Cons●quently of the Soul and certainly these pleasurs which do more immediatly affect the soul must needs be the most Active pleasures and such are those which arise from Contemplation For Contemplation does often drive our souls into Extasies and is so charming that it may be rather said to Ravish then Please committing so open a Rapture upon our Souls that it pulls them almost into a State of Separation Dear and kind Soul You have known these things doubtless by sad experience if ever Love had the Commanding Faculty of your Soul For by Love we go nearest the Image of GOD and the Imitation of our Savior 4. Chap. 1 Epist general of John 7 and 8 verses Beloved let us love one another for love is of GOD And every one that loveth is born of GOD and knoweth GOD. He that leveth not knoweth not GOD For GOD is Love The greatest Inconveniency that attends Lovers while they Sail upon so Vnknowen and Tempestuous Seas as the instability and unconstancie of a Woman's fancy are the false Reports whereunto they may be exposed by Bussie Bodies who may tale a Thousand Lies of them For who can promise that they shall never drop one word in Passion act any thing without a previous Deliberation or never fall under Misinformation And which is yet worse when Misrepresentations are forged against them they are not acquainted by such as either give or receive them and so their Defence becomes wholly imprstable But why need I expect to teach you what Love is or what discouragments Lovers may propos● to themselves before they arrive at the conquest seing you have traced those Paths far more succesfuly than I have done And it has added no small Commendation to your Character That Fancy rather than Ambition or Riches were your choice For what could you have proposed reasonably to your self in so doing For litle can defend us against our present necessities and nothing can defend against the Future And when Riches are piled up they serve either to satisfie Nature and that is easie or to satisfie Fancy and that is Impossible Riches are realy though they remain but like the Manna in that 16 Chap. of Exodus 18 verse Whereof he that gathered much had nothing over and he that Gathered litle had no Lack. Ecclesiasties 5 chap 10 and 11 and 12 verses He that Loveth silver shall not be satisfied with Silver nor he that Loveth abundance with Increase this it also Vainity When goods increase they are increased that eat them And what good is there to the Owners thereof saving the beholding of them with their Eyes The sleep of the Labouring Man is Sweet whether he eat little or much but the abundance of the Rich will not suffer him to sl●ep Such was the Insatiat desire of that Rich King Craesus who wa● said to have had Mountains of Gold and Vast Treasures that he took a great deal of pleasure to see his Gold and thefore called in for all his Exchequer at once whereupon his Subjects finding him to have so Vast a desire for Gold conspired against him and Murthered him And when he was Dead they were pleased thus Reproachfully to Triumph over him Saying he Loved Gold while he was on Life let him once have his fill of it before he be burried and accordingly they melted Gold and poured it down his Throat that it might be knowen how little a Portion of all his great Treasure would satisfie him when Dead when all his Dominions and the Riches therein could not Satisfie his vast Appetite when he was Living Solon gave him this Advice when he Enquired at him if he thought him a happy Man which Sentence made him set King Cyrus at Liberty when he was Captivated by him He gave him this Answer That no Man could be called happy till Death came as you have it prettily expressed by Invenal thus ultima Semper Expectanda dies homini Dicique Beatus Ante obitum nemo supremaque funera debet The day of Death should still be thought upon And no Man can be happy till it come Dearest Familiar If at any time hereafter either Fortunatly or Unluckily you six your Contemplation upon a Woman whom Providence hath

Gospel who said to himself Soul take thy ease for my Barns are full and I have Wine Corn and Oyl laid up in store for many years yet that same n●ght he was forc'd to dye and leave it all I know no Argument to peaswade them to the contrary but this That the Scripture is express enough against the loving of Moncy inordinarly Proverbs 23 Chap 5. Verse Wilt thou set thine ever upon that which is not for riches certainlie make themselves wings and flie away as an Eagle towards Heaven 1 Epistle of Timothie 6 Chap 16 Verse The Love of Mony is the root of all evil and in the 17 18 and 19 Verses of the same Chapter you have the Apostles words against pride Charge them that are rich in this World that they be not high minded nor Trust in uncertain Riches but in the Living GOD who gives us richly all things to enjoy That they do good that they be rich in good works ready to distribute willing to Communicate laying up in store for themselves a good Foundation against the time to come that they may lay hold on Eternal Life Since then Rich men are but called GOD's Stewarts they should disperse and dispence with some of what God hath Blessed them with to the necessitous Soul for they know not how long a Tack they have either of their Riches or Lives for boast not thy self of to morrow for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth Proverbs 27 Chap. Verse 1. For Solomon gave a true Character of Earthlie enjoyments when he called them Vanity of Vanities for from the hour we begin to possess them they begin either to fly away from us or we from them and amidst our greatest hopes they are either suddainly by a cross Providence sweept away or if they remain even then they are attended with anxieties for what pleasure is there here below that has no mixture or the least tincture of sorrow accompanying ●t if Solomon who had all that heart could wish called all things Vani● and Vexation of Spirit or of a sudden in the full carreer of their Grandure and greatness They are like Belshazzar in that 5 Chap of Daniel whose death was Prognosticate by the hand writing on the Wall when he was drinking out of the Golden Vessels taken out of the Temple of Jerusalem and was then worshiping the Gods of Gold hurried away from them by death And certainly it is but the Just Reward of Ambitious Mens Merits who as it were Idolize their Riches more than they mind upon Death and Eternity when GOD takes either them from the World or the Worldly Enjoyments from them Psalm 37. Verse 35.36 I have seen the Wicked in great Power and spreading himself like a young Bay tree Yet he passed away and lo he was not Yea I sought him out he could not be found Dear Soul Now last of all I beg pardon for this Prolix Letter but in reguaird I have eased you of the Trouble of Reading it in Write I hope you 'll excuse the Longitude thereof As I have met with some sharp Difficulties in my Youth and tender Years before I arrived to my Majority So at length GOD in His Wise Providence notwithstan●ing of all the Opprobries and Lies wherewith some Malevolous Persons w●re pleased to blaicken my Fame and Good name with hath casten an Eye of Compassion upon me as he did upon Joseph in that 41 Chap of Genesis and 14 Verse When he was taken out of the Dungeon and preferred by Pharoch Or as upon Daniel in that 6 Chap. of his Prophesies when Darius had shut him up who by the Malicious Advice of his Fellow Competitors Envyed him because he had the President and first place of the Kingdom because of his excellent Spirit in the Den with Lyons who met with so great a Miracle both of Power and Mercy from GOD that GOD sent an Angel and shut the Lyons Mouths that they might not hurt him I might here apply some part of this Discourse to some of my Friends in your City whose Love or rather Hatred Vents it self and shines forth so clearly That by the Good Character they give of me to others they plainly declare they wish no good to us but on the contrair if their Testimony could prevail and be Entertained they industriously Combine both to render me infamous and to cause me loose the good esteem that I have gained already But I shall not say any more than what I have said already Only I must inform them that seeing I am the only Child on Life of my Fathers whole Family who was their eldest Brother and possibly if they would restrain their Tongues al 's closssy as they keep their Baggs of Money I might be Respected as his Son and I think it is not Ch●istanly done in them to expose either my Miscarriages or Misfortunes to the Plurality But if they do continue so to disclaim agaim● and E●deavour to Speak Lies which may be others will believe to be true when talked by them I only warn them that they will be Subject both to the Censure of others who will think it mean in them to Speak so of a Friend and to my Resentment And lastly let them Remember Solon's advice that none can be said to be happy till Death come so if they die before their Children come to Majority They cannot well know but they may meet with Misfortunes al 's well as I have done Finally To conclude my Letter I must inform you That I am very happily Trysted with a Rational Kind and Discreet Gentleman to my Master whom I hope GOD has raised up as another Joseph for my support and Provision He treats me with all the Civility that any of my Education and Parentage could expect and I do not impute this to proceed out of any Merit of my own or that I fancie that my good and faithfull Deportment is the Procureing Cause thereof but it proceeds meerly from that Genuine and Innate Propensity and Disposition he has to Communicat Good And it is certainly that which makes Men Aspite to an Virtuous Ambition Magnanimity and have a desire to be great viz. To be Capable to do good to those who deserve it This goes al 's near the Nature of GOD as can be who takes pleasure to Dispense his Blessings upon them that fear Him I need not Harrangue in Commendation of his Parts or good Nature every Body and particularly your Citizens and Gentlemen of the Adjacent Countrey who are acquaint with him knowing perfectly well his Facetious and taking Conversation I wish GOD my preserve him for a Blessing to his Friends and Family for the good of others and for my comfort and Satisfaction And if he and I agree as I hope there shall nothing fall out to occasion a Rupture I shall be the less Circumspect of keeping in with Friends who are so Vnchristian and uncharitable and who are so easily Disobliged and of whose kindness