no. But to subscribe to fupport an Hospital, open to all juft Complaints, is a general Subfcription for the Affiftance and Comfort of Men in Mifery and Diftrefs, without any other Confideration whatever: and therefore this Charity has this excellent Ingredient in it, that it is Love without Partiality.

Laftly, There is one Inducement more, which is the good Management and Oeconomy shewn in the Application of this Charity. I have mentioned now a Thing worthy to be highly commended and extolled, but not by me in this Audience. I shall take Notice of it, therefore, only as a Fact, ‘a Fact published by laying the Accounts of this Charity before the World, and in which every Man, who pleases, may at an easy Rate have full Satisfaction.

If this Confideration is, and furely it is a great Inducement to Benefactors to encourage this good Work; it is an Argument alfo to those who have employed their Time and their Pains in the Affairs of this House, to perfevere in this Work of Love: their Charity is more, perhaps, than they imagine: others give whatever their Proportion amounts to; but thefe, by their good and wife Administration, encourage many to give;

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give; it is a Circumstance which they may reflect on with Comfort here, and it will furely have its Reward hereafter.

Go on therefore with Cheerfulness, in this great and good Employment; and in Confidence that you are ferving a Master, who will not forget this your Work and Labour of Love.

DISCOURSE XII.

DEUT. xxxii. 45, 46.

And Mofes made an End of Speaking all thefe Words to all Ifrael.

And be faid unto them, Set your Hearts unto all the Words, which I teftify among you this Day; which ye fhall command your Ghildren to obferve, to do all the Words of this Law.

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of Advice which Mofes gave to the People of Ifrael; for on the felf-fame Day, on which he made this Exhortation, he was fummoned by God to depart from this World; accordingly he died on the Moun tain of Nebo, and was gathered to his People.

The last Advice of dying Friends naturally

rally makes a strong Impreffion on the Minds of those who survive them; and it is as natural for those who are leaving this World, to make the Thing, which they efteem to be of the greateft Consequence and Importance to their Friends, who are to ftay behind them, the Subject-matter of their laft Advice.

Confider now the Character of Mofes; the many Years he spent in conducting the People of Ifrael from Egypt to the Land of Promife; the high Office he bore, by being appointed by God a Prophet and Lawgiver to his People: confider him, after a long Courfe of Teaching and Exhortation, giving his laft Advice before he died; and you must needs think the Happiness of the People to be extremely concerned in the Matter recommended to them, by fo great a Friend, by one of fuch Authority, and under fuch Circumftances.

The Advice is no lefs interefting than is to be expected: it aims at laying a folid Foundation of Happiness for that and all fucceeding Generations; by instructing the People how to perpetuate to their Posterity the Knowledge of God and his Law, and to make him their conftant Friend and Pro

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tector; namely, by inftilling into the Minds of their Children, a Senfe of the great Things which God had done for them and their Forefathers, and by forming them early to Obedience to the divine Law under which they lived:-Ye shall command your Children to obferve and do all the Words of this Law.

The Jews had still a greater Reason to be careful and conftant in difcharging this Duty towards their Children; they had not only the last Command of their great Lawgiver for it, but they well knew that they were distinguished from the Reft of the World by Providence for the Sake of this Duty. Their great Ancestor Abraham was chofen to be the Head of a great Nation, that he might, and because God knew he would, be diligent to transmit to his Poste rity the Knowledge of God's Laws, and to breed them up in Obedience to them. In the eighteenth Chapter of the Book of Genefis, God declares his Purpose of making Abraham a great and mighty Nation; and that all the Nations of the Earth fhould be bleffed in him. At the 19th Verfe, the Reafon of this peculiar Regard to Abraham is given; For I know him, that he will com

mand