XII. Being is ever prefent with us; to him, SERM. therefore let us apply in every exigency; ask his approbation and confent to every word and every action, before we venture to speak, or to act at all; when we rife up to labour, and when we lie down to reft, let us implore his aid, and folicit his protection. Let us implore him to whom all hearts are open, all defires known, and from whom no fecrets are hidden, to cleanse the thoughts of our hearts, by the infpiration of his Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love him, and worthily magnify his holy name, through Christ our Lord. SERMON XIII. LUKE XII. 1. Beware ye of the Leaven of the Pharifees, which is Hypocrify. Ο' UR Bleffed Saviour, who came down from heaven to reform and instruct mankind, and who never whilst on earth omitted any favourable opportunity of recommending virtue, and severely rebuking vice, having, as the Apostle informs us in the beginning of the verse, affembled together a very large concourse of people, who crowded from all parts to fee and hear him, begins his addrefs to them in the words of my text, Beware ye, fays he, of the leaven of the Pharifees, which is Hypocrify. SERM. |