DISCOURSE XLV. MATTHEW V. 48. Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. DISCOURSE XLVI. P. 341. JOHN iii. 19. This is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. DISCOURSE XLVII. P. 355. JOHN V. 44. How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and feek not the honour that cometh from God only? DISCOURSE XLVIII. MARK viii. 38. p. 369. Whofoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and finful generation, of him alfo fhall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels. DISCOURSE XLIX. 2 CORINTHIANS V. 10, II. P. 383. We must all appear before the judgment-feat of Chrift, that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. Knowing therefore the terrors of the Lord, we perfuade men. P. 399. DISCOURSE L. In four Parts. PHILIPPIANS ii. 6-II. Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God; but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a fervant, and was made in the likeness of men: and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name; that at the name of Jefus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; and that every tongue should confefs that Jefus Chrift is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. DISCOURSE LI. TITUS ii. 14. P. 413. Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. DISCOURSE LII. I TIMOTHY i. 15. p. 463, This is a faithful faying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Chrift Jefus came into the world to fave finners. P. 475. DISCOURSE XXVI. PSALM XCIV. 19. In the multitude of my thoughts within me, thy comforts delight my foul. The old tranflation renders it thus: In the multitude of the forrows that I had in my heart, thy comforts have refreshed my foul. THESE HESE verfions, as they both very well express the sense of the original, fo they give light to each other. The multitude of forrows, mentioned in one tranflation, must be the forrows, in fome fort, peculiar to the men of thought and reflection; fince in the other they are called, the multitude of thoughts. That there are fuch forrows, we learn from one who was himself a man of great thought: In much wisdom, fays the Preacher, is much grief; and he that increafeth knowledge increafeth forrow. If we follow the train of thought which he has marked out, and view the life of man under all the various circumstances incident to it, every step we take will yield a proof of his propofition, every difcovery will bring its torment, when we find, that all the days of man are forrows, and his travel grief; yea, his heart taketh not reft in the night. But there is no end of such inquiries; and indeed not much reason for them: we may fit ftill, and our own experience will bring this knowledge home to us, without giving us the trouble of looking abroad into the world to find it. Cares and anxieties will make their way to us, though our doors are guarded within and without. We need only have common understanding to fee the evil that is in the world; and we must want common sense, if we feel no share of it ourselves. The diftemper then is plain: but who is he that can cure it? Who can adminifter a remedy fufficient to the evil, and give ease to an heart oppreffed with forrows, and weighed down with a multitude of tormenting thoughts? To find a cure for the evils of life has employed the thoughts of the wisest men in all ages; and the employment was worthy of all their care: but yet the world is where it was, nothing happier for their inquiries; still complaining, ftill calling out for help, and finding none. Some bid us lay hold of the good things of the world, and open our hearts to the pleasures of life. Wholesome advice! but where are the good things to be purchased, the ufe of which they prefcribe? What merchant can furnish us with fincere pleafures, and ease of mind which knows no grief? Others bid us be above pain and forrow, and call ftrongly upon our reafon to reject these phantoms of the imagination, which can have no effect upon a wife man. An hard leffon! for, though the mafter may forget common fenfe whilft he is |