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fures, whilft there are joys which he SERM.
hath never felt to allure, whilft there
are fenfations which he has never known
to invite him; even fuch as his eye hath
not feen, nor his ear heard; neither hath
it entered into his heart to conceive them?

Laftly, my brethren, there is always left for us the fupreme pleasure of doing good, of leffening the calamities and removing the wants of our fellow-crea

tures.

To conclude:-Satisfied as we must be, that all human pleasures are ever vain, fruitless, and unworthy, that they are nothing, in short, but vanity and vexation, let us quit them for fomething more durable and permanent.

God, of his infinite wisdom and good

nefs, hath purposely made all the enjoy

ments

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SER M. ments of this life, infufficient, danger

III.

ous, fleeting and tranfitory, that man, finding by fatal experience that they are all unfatisfactory, might fix his heart where only true joys are to be found, even on that God who is the fource of true happiness, and the inexhaustible fountain of pleasure; that by a steady perfeverance in the paths of religion and virtue, he might render himself worthy to obtain that reward which is reserved for him in thofe eternal manfions, where uninterrupted blifs is difpenfed by him, and pleasures flow at his right hand for

evermore.

SERMON IV.

PSALM XVIII. 25, 26.

With the holy thou shalt be holy, and with a perfect man thou shalt be perfect. With the clean thou shalt be clean, and with the froward thou shalt learn frowardness.

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IV.

ONVERSATION hath ever justly been S ERM. accounted a powerful inftrument of good or evil; hath always had the ftrongest influence on the conduct of human life, and the vice or virtue of the world hath ever, in a great meafure, been owing to it. The regulation, therefore, of this important point, did in all ages demand the utmost prudence, and in none more perhaps than in our own. Now, if ever, it is, no doubt, highly expedient for us to exhort