. Sermons on the following subjects .. . fion, and in danger of perifliingfor ever ? To which add the example ofthe Son of God, the greateft: perfon thatever lived upon earth, and the greateftviourner, ^ He was a man of forrows andacquainted with griej: and were they not^ our forrows that he bore? did he not weepfor us, and how then can we refufe weepingfor ourfelves, and for our fellow-creatures,whofe happinefs we ought to tender asour, own, in imitation of that divine ex-ample which the Son of God has left us ?Let us renounce the thoughts of a life offenfual eafe and pleafure, and maintain a
. Sermons on the following subjects .. . fion, and in danger of perifliingfor ever ? To which add the example ofthe Son of God, the greateft: perfon thatever lived upon earth, and the greateftviourner, ^ He was a man of forrows andacquainted with griej: and were they not^ our forrows that he bore? did he not weepfor us, and how then can we refufe weepingfor ourfelves, and for our fellow-creatures,whofe happinefs we ought to tender asour, own, in imitation of that divine ex-ample which the Son of God has left us ?Let us renounce the thoughts of a life offenfual eafe and pleafure, and maintain awife fobriety of fpirit and fuch a mix-ture of religious fad?2efs and thoughtful- nefs f Ifa. liii, 3. ! Ver. 4, 380 Thebleffednefsof, &c. Vol. I. nefs as agrees with the prefent degenera-cy of mankind, and the fins and infelici-ties of this mortal life : and then, as wefhall have pleafures and fatisfadions nowwhich the world knows nothing of, fowe (hall at laft enjoy a happinefs whichis not allayed with the leaft roixture SER- The cbara5ler^ &c. 381
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