. Sermons on various subjects, evangelical, devotional and practical : adapted to the promotion of Christian piety, family religion and youthful virtue. evil, andyour lips from speaking guile ; depart from eviland do good ; seek peace and pursue it. The faceof the Lord is against them that do evil, but hiseyes are upon the righteous. And come, myfriends, come soon, come before another commu-nion, and, joining yourselves to the Lord in a per-petual covenant, seal this covenant at his you will confirm your pious resolutions—thusyou will encourage and excite one another to loveand 8*oo
. Sermons on various subjects, evangelical, devotional and practical : adapted to the promotion of Christian piety, family religion and youthful virtue. evil, andyour lips from speaking guile ; depart from eviland do good ; seek peace and pursue it. The faceof the Lord is against them that do evil, but hiseyes are upon the righteous. And come, myfriends, come soon, come before another commu-nion, and, joining yourselves to the Lord in a per-petual covenant, seal this covenant at his you will confirm your pious resolutions—thusyou will encourage and excite one another to loveand 8*ood works. 368 The present season hnporfant. Some of us are now about to sit down at theLords table. Here we are to renew the covenant,which we have before made. Let us do it in sin-cerity, and be stedfast in the covenant which wchere renew. We hope, that a door is open for us,and that we have secured an entrance into it. Letus by abounding in the virtues of the Christian char-acter make our calling sure, that so we may neverfall, but an entrance may be ministered to us abun-dantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lordand Saviour Jesus Death mevitable^ but the time and manner unknown» ECCLES. ix. 12. For man also knowelh nol his (ime ; as the fishes that are taken inan ev?( net, and the birds that are caught in the snare, so arethe sons of men snared in an evil lime, when it falleih suddenlyupon them. 1>I O advice can be more important, orfounded in better reason, than that which Solomongives in the words a little before the text. What-soever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thymight, for there is no work, nor device, nor knowl-edge, nor wisdom in the grave, whither thou go-est. The present is the proper season to cultivatereligious knowledge, to acquire heavenly wisdom,to do good to mankind, and to secure the happinessof immortality ; for we are all hastening to thegrave, which will forever terminate our short anduncertain space of probation. No worldly inter
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