1 Telfervey THERON and ASPASIO: OR, A SERIES O F DIALOGUES AND LETTERS, UPON THE Most Important and Interefting Subjects. IN THREE VOLUMES. By JAMES HERVEY, A. M. The Memorial of thine abundant Kindness fhall be skewed, and VOL. I. FARCT LONDON: Printed for JOHN and JAMES RIVINGTON, at the MDCCLV. 141 i. 491. то The Right Honourable Lady FRANCES SHIRLEY. MADAM, F Christianity was inconfiftent with true Politeness, or prejudicial to real Happiness, I fhould be extremely injudicious, and inexcufably ungrateful, in presenting these Essays to your LADYSHIP. But as the Religion of JESUS is the grand Ornament of our Nature, and a Source of the fublimest Joy, the Purport of the following Pages, cannot be unwor thy the Countenance and Protection of the most A 2 |