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us from all worldly avocations, awakes our torpid attention to the concerns of eternity, and affords us the means of fecuring our hearts against every temptation that furrounds us. In the temple facred to His name, we may undisturbed addrefs the KING IMMORTAL AND INVISIBLE, who will hear from heaven, his dwelling-place, and when he beareth, will forgive: We may listen to the Gospel of light and life, and learn, while we behold ourselves encompaffed by the monuments of the dead, to prepare for the manfion appointed for all the living.

For man knoweth not his time; as the fifh that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the fnare, fo are the fons of men fnared in an evil time, when it falleth fuddenly upon them *. Every hour, every moment fhould be diligently

* Ecclef. ix. 12.

SERM,

VII.

improved,

SERM. improved, for the moment that is past reVII. turns no more. The grave is no place for repentance. In the cave of darkness and filence no work can be performed. What is here unfinished, can never be complet ed; what is here loft, can never be regained.-Is life tranfient? then fet thine houfe in order. Is eternal joy to be fought? then be vigilant and holy.

ON

ON

A FUTURE STATE

OF

REWARDS AND PUNISHMENTS.

SERMON VIII.

ROMANS ii. 7, 8.

To them who, by patient continuance in well doing, feek for glory, honour, and immortality, eternal life: But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath.

ST. PAUL, who was peculiarly the SERM.

apoftle of the Gentiles, in all his VIII.

writings labours to free them from the ceremonial obfervances of the Mofaic in

stitution, which the Jews wanted to ob

trude upon the heathen converts to Chrif

tianity;

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