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the lamb, and the leopard lie down with the kid, and the young lion and the fatling together, and a little child fhall lead them. All racking and malevolent paffions fhall then be extinguifhed, all base and dishonest actions fhall then ceafe, and true religion fhall fanctify the hearts, prefide over the actions, and blefs the lives of all

men.

Thus univerfally happy, thus univerfally good shall the state of Grace be, when the fullness of the Gentiles come in, and the remnant of Ifrael is gathered together; and as the time of this great reformation is un certain, as it may be even now at our doors, how much is it our duty, how much is it our intereft to contribute every one of us his mite towards the haftening of this happy period:

And

And do thou, O God, who seest how low religion is funk, both in our minds and practice, be pleased to impart to us and to all people, fuch portions of thy grace as may purify our hearts, and amend our lives; as my incite us to the converfion of others, as well as the reformation of ourselves; quicken our endeavours to this good work, affift our infirmities, and in thy good time crown us with fuccefs, and bring all mankind under the dominion of thy bleffed fon; and when this happy time is arrived, then be thou pleafed, of thy gracious goodness, fhortly to accomplish the number of thine elect, and to haften thy kingdom of Glory, that we, with all those that are departed in the true faith of thy holy name, may have our perfect confummation and blifs, both in body and foul, in thy eternal and everlasting glory, through Jefus Chrift our Lord; to

whom,

whom, with the Father and the Holy Ghoft, be ascribed, &c. &c.

SERMON

SERMON

MATTHEW vi. 10th.

VI.

Thy Will be done in Earth, as it is in

Heaven.

TH

HIS is the laft of those petitions which relate immediately to God, and is the best proof we can give of our being fincere in the foregoing.

The will of God may be understood either of those laws which he has given us for the direction of our lives, or of thofe difpenfations which in the course of them he is pleased to lay on us.

In

In the first of thefe fenfes our fincere Obedience, in the last our chearful Submiffion is required. Both thefe duties I fhall confider in my prefent difcourfe, fubjoining fuch confiderations as are proper to enforce them.

And firft, Of obedience to the will of God, as it means the obfervation of those laws which he has given us for the direction of our lives.

Thefe laws are contained in the holy fcriptures; and as it is neceffary that we fhould know the good, perfect, and acceptable will of God, before it is poffible that we can do it, it is our duty to make ourselves thoroughly acquainted with these books, that we may have a competent knowledge of thofe laws which are to be the standard of all our actions. In order

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