variety of cafes which call for medical affiftance, is another argument in favour of our caufe, of confiderable advantage to the community at large.

Finally, Let the merits of the whole undertaking then rest upon their own proper ground. Let the feelings or paflions of men, or, if thefe are fufpicious motives, as more eafily imputable to partial affection and delufive appearances, let the difpaffionate judgment of mankind, formed only upon reafon and matter of fact, direct the hand that withholds, and the hand that gives. It is, perhaps, in more fenfes than one, "bleffed to give, than to receive."

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The collected reafons in favour of this laudable and charitable inftitution arife, with a convincing force to willing minds, from the laws of nature, and the pofitive written word of God; from the example of Chrift, whofe followers and difciples we profefs ourselves, and whofe whole life was employed in acts of mercy and kindness, and in doing good. Other reafons were fuggefted as well from certain inftinctive feelings, as from motives of temporal intereft, whether we confider that the cafe of these afflicted

afflicted objects may be our own, or that we may be deprived of the fervices of the induftrious mechanic, who "formeth the "mattock and the plough," or of the labourer who tilleth the earth and gathereth in the corn for our fupport and pleasure, or of the herdfman who waiteth on the flocks which yield our covering and our food.

By the wife ordering of almighty God, all his creatures are made dependent upon him, and that dependence is a continued, though filent, admonition to obey him: the dependence which he hath also ordained to fubfift between one man and another, in a continued feries, is also a further excitement to the obfervance of his laws in the discharge of all relative duties, and the exercife of fundry moral virtues. And it is rightly argued by the apostle John, " If any

man fay, I love God, and hateth his "brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth "not his brother whom he hath feen, how "can he love God, whom he hath not "feen? And this commandment have we "from him, that he who loveth God, love

"his brother alfo*." And fince "love is "the fulfilling of the law", without any diftinction, let us remember the commendable and exemplary generofity of the good Samaritan, who gave no ear to his own prejudices; who waited not to inquire, "Who was his

neighbour?" for all men are brethren. Let us remember the important fequel in this facred ftory, the fignificant feal of approbation fet thereto by the bleffed Jefus, in the important and Jafting injunction, " Go and do thou likewife."

* 1 John iv. 20, 21.

+ Rom. xii. 10.

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SERMON

SERMON III.*

THE BEAUTY OF HOLINESS.

PSALM XCVI. 9..

O WORSHIP THE LORD IN THE BEAUTY OF HOLINESS.

THE lively and fpirited exhortations which holy David pours forth, in the pfalm before us, to worship and adore our God and father, not only command the attention, but convince the judgment. For, befides the eloquence of his language, there is argument even in his exhortations. He places the one true God, the Lord Jehovah, as the only object of religious adoration; and it was because of his uniform worship of this one only true and invifible God, in oppofition to the polytheism, or multitude of gods, acknowledged in the east, that the royal pfalmift was himfelf

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* Preached in the parish-church of Swinderby, in the county of Lincoln, on Sunday, April 18, 1773. being the first day of opening the church after newfeating it, by the voluntary subscription of some of the freeholders and others.