Sermons on the following subjects ... . t;whereas Darknefs is diredly contrary toBoth: So the Virtues of Angels and ofMen, though they bear no proportion atall to the adorable Perfediojis of God, yetthey refemble them neverthelefs in beingof the fame nature and kind ; whereas Wicked- to attain PerfeBion. 115 Wickednefs is in its whole kind a State S h r m,of Contrariety, Oppofitlon, and Enmity. ^^^.^^A perfeft and moft com pleat Example isfet before us for our imitation, that aim-ing always at that which is moft excel-lent, we may ^rcw continually, and makea perpetual Progrefs in the ways of V
Sermons on the following subjects ... . t;whereas Darknefs is diredly contrary toBoth: So the Virtues of Angels and ofMen, though they bear no proportion atall to the adorable Perfediojis of God, yetthey refemble them neverthelefs in beingof the fame nature and kind ; whereas Wicked- to attain PerfeBion. 115 Wickednefs is in its whole kind a State S h r m,of Contrariety, Oppofitlon, and Enmity. ^^^.^^A perfeft and moft com pleat Example isfet before us for our imitation, that aim-ing always at that which is moft excel-lent, we may ^rcw continually, and makea perpetual Progrefs in the ways of Vir-tue; and though we can never come up toour pattern itfelf; yet it is fufficient thatwe may juftly be faid to become like untoGod, when, as the Apoftle expreffes it,we are made partakers of the Divine Na-ture ; and fuch Imitation of God, as ourfrail and mortal Nature is capable of, istruly and in a proper fenfe the compara-tive Perfection of our Human Nature^ asabfolute Perfection is the Perfection of theDivide, Vql. IX J^ SER^ [ 7 ]. SERMON VI. The Reward of Juftice. Luke xIv. 14, latter part. For thou palt he recompenfed at the Re- furreBion of the Jufl. HE word, Jujt^ in this place, S e r of the fame general im- , as Righteous or Virtu^ C/V%^ous; expreffing, not the per-formance of a particular Du-ty^ but the habitual Pradtice of Virtue ingeneral. Thus in Other places of Scrip-ture ; Matt. xiii. 49 ; At the end of theWorlds the Angels fkalU—fever tl e wick- i 3 ^i
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