Thus lives _Flavia_; and if she lives ten years longer, she will have spent about _fifteen hundred and sixty Sundays_ after this manner. She will have wore about _two hundred_ different suits of cloaths. Out of this _thirty years_ of her life, fifteen of them will have been disposed of in _bed_; and of the remaining fifteen, about _fourteen_ of them will have been consumed in eating, drinking, dressing, visiting, conversation, reading and hearing plays and romances; at operas, assemblies, balls, and diversions. For you may reckon all the time she is _up_, thus spent, except about an _hour_ and half that is disposed of at church, most _Sundays_ in the year. With great management, and under mighty rules of œconomy, she will have spent _sixty hundred_ pounds upon herself, bating only some _shillings_, _crowns_, or _half crowns_, that have gone from her in _accidental_ charities. 9. I shall not take upon me to say, that it is impossible for _Flavia_ to be saved; but thus much must be said, that her whole life is in direct opposition to all those _tempers_ and _practices_ which the gospel has made necessary to salvation. *If you was to hear her say, that she had lived all her life like _Anna_ the prophetess, _who departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day_, you would look upon her as very extravagant; and yet this would be no greater an extravagance, than for her to say, that she had been _striving to enter in at the straight gate_, or making any one doctrine of the gospel a rule of her life. *She may as well say, that she lived with our Saviour when he was upon earth, as that she has lived in imitation of him, or made it any part of her care to live in such tempers, as he required of all those that would be his disciples. She may as truly say, that she has every day _washed the saints feet_, as that she has lived in Christian _humility_ and _poverty_ of Spirit; and as reasonably think, that she has taught a _charity-school_, as that she has lived in _works of charity_. She has as much reason to think, that she has been a _sentinel_ in an army, as that she has lived in _watching and self-denial_. And it may as fairly be said, that she lived by the labour of her hands, as that she had _given all diligence to make her calling and election sure_. 10. And here it is to be well observed, that the _poor_, _vain_ turn of mind, the _folly_ and _vanity_ of this whole life of _Flavia_, is all owing to the manner of using her estate. It is this that has formed her _spirit_, that has given life to every _idle temper_, that has supported every _trifling passion_, and kept her from all thoughts of a prudent, useful, and devout life. When her parents died, she had no thoughts about her two hundred pounds a year; but that she had so much money to do what she would with, to spend upon herself, and purchase the pleasures and gratifications of all her passions.