It is a sad fact, but there is no doubt that the poor are completely unconscious of their own picturesqueness.

Light and Darknes, Life and Death, Contraries one opposed to another. How in an History, in a Theatre do we take the greatest pleasure to have afflicting passions of pity, fear, grief raised in us even unto sighs, a real melancholy, and tears, while we know, that this is only a part in the whole; a Scene, which adorns and heighthens the beauty of the whole, and then loseth the melancholy of its shade, and discord in the universal lustre and sweetness?

In the last place, that which makes the Variety full, is the return of the whole thorow the Contrariety by a sweet and full close into its Unity; the return by the Contrariety from its low estate, to its first and most perfect heighth.

The Lord Jesus in his Mediatory Person, is the fairest, the richest Draught or Portrait of the Divine Design and Work, as it lies in the Divine Mind; animated and heightened by the most immediate, intimate, mutual Union with the Divine Mind. Here therefore is to be expected the most ample Variety.