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man best knoweth how to cultivate and SERM. improve his own field, and doth not stand in need of our advice or affiftance ; that he therefore hath purposely fo mixed the wheat and the tares in this world, as feemed beft to his divine wif dom; that he fuffereth the tares to remain until the day of harvest; that he will then make a proper distinction between them; that he will burn up the one, and gather the other into his own garner.

ON THE

PARABLE

OF

DIVES AND LAZARUS.

SERMON XIX.

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LUKE XVI. 31.

If they hear not Mofes and the prophets, neither will they be perfuaded, though one rofe from the dead.

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HOEVER feriously and impar- SERM. tially confiders the conduct and behaviour of the Jewish nation under their divine Law-giver, as recorded in Holy Writ, cannot fail of being struck with an admiration of his goodness and beneficence towards a people fo undeferving of it he will perceive the Almighty acting like a kind and tender father, and will not behold without indignation the pride, ingratitude, and difobedience

of