. Sermons on the following subjects .. . ed to this, wouldnot fo much difquiet us. How fhall I* acquit myfelf well in the fight of God, fo as to obtain his approbation and favour?* how fhall I glorify God ? how redeemmy time, and fill it up to the bed ad-vantage ? how improve the talents com-mitted to my truft in fuch a manner, thatI may have confidence before my Lordat his coming ? how adoi n the gofpel, keep myfelf unfpotted from the world, and, in all the relations and circumftances of life, maintain a charafter for piety, cha- rity, difintereftednefs, and integrity ? how* may I pafs life m
. Sermons on the following subjects .. . ed to this, wouldnot fo much difquiet us. How fhall I* acquit myfelf well in the fight of God, fo as to obtain his approbation and favour?* how fhall I glorify God ? how redeemmy time, and fill it up to the bed ad-vantage ? how improve the talents com-mitted to my truft in fuch a manner, thatI may have confidence before my Lordat his coming ? how adoi n the gofpel, keep myfelf unfpotted from the world, and, in all the relations and circumftances of life, maintain a charafter for piety, cha- rity, difintereftednefs, and integrity ? how* may I pafs life moft ufefully, and meet death « iC S E R. III. Of thotightfulnefs for to morrow. 8 5 death moft fafely and comfortably ? Having my mind and heart pofTefsd withfuch thoughts as thefe, every other thoughtinconliftent w^ith thefe would be excluded;and, for the joy that was fet before me, Ifhould fo regard temporal things, as to beeafy and fatisfied, whatever, thro* the wifeappointment of God, either did^ or mighthappen to me in this SE R. 86 Of the nature^ pleafures. Vol. I. SERMON IV. Of the nature, pleafures, and ad-vantage of devotion. Psalm Ixxiii. 28. lit is good for me to draw near toGod* TH E people of Ifrael^ to whom thePfalmiji belongd, was furroundedwith idolaters; this is the reafon that wemeet with fo many paflages which have re-lation to idolatry in the book of Pfalms. Thewords of the text are of this kind 5 for, inoppofition to the worfhippers of idols, orfalfe gods, of whom he faith in the formerverfe, Loy they that are far from thee fhallperijh ; thou haft dejiroyed all them that go awhoring from thee % the Ffalmifi declares forhimfelf, It is good for me to draw near toGod, It is my refolution to continue fted-^^ faft in the worship and fervice of the true God, Se R. IV. a72d advantage of devotion, ^j God, the Maker of the univerfe, who hatlrchofen us to be his peculiar people j* and, in doing this, I reckon I moft ef-** fecftually confult my own happinefs,
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