instrument of their deliverance: but love for ourselves, and indifference about others, always bear a proportion to each other in the mind of man: and their connexion with each other was never more strongly seen than on this occasion.] His inordinate joy at the acquisition of the gourd was more than equalled by, II. His intemperate sorrow at the loss of it— God, seeing the ingratitude of Jonah, withdrew the gift soon after it had been been bestowed— [He prepared a worm, which smote the gourd, so