...is uncertain how soon God may deal thus with thee, it is wisdom to be always ready. " Letc us search and try our ways, and turn again unto the Lord." Let us first try how the matter stands with us, at the present ; let us examine ourselves and our ways, and...

...to be gracious to us. Ah ! let us not harden our Hearts, nor perfift in our Sins ; but let as fearch and try our Ways, and turn again unto the Lord. Let us humble our felves and cry earneftly unto God, and he will have Mercy upon us. There was a time when...

..."Jeremiah, Wherefore doth a living Man complain, a Man far the Puni/hment of his Sins? Let us fear cb and try our Ways, and turn again unto the Lord. Let us lift up our Hearts with our Hands unto God in the Heavens. Or, let us fpeak in the Language of Micah, Who is a...

...nor grieve the Children of Men. 38. Let us fearch and try our Ways, and turn again to the Lord, 39. Let us lift up our Heart with our Hands unto God in the Heavens. 40. BIES.SED BE Thou, O Lord God of our Fathers, for ever and ever, (i Cbron. xxii. 10.) 41. Thine,...

...¿Pfal. cxxiii. i. Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwelled in the heavens. Lam. ii¡. 41. Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. Ь Ifa. ixiii. 15. Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holinefs and of thy...

...g Pfal. cxxiii. I. Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwelled in the heavens. Lam. iii. 41. Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. /• Ifa. Ixiii. 16. Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy hound's and of thy...

...fpirits, or in a fpiritual way, when we draw nigh to God with a true heart; or when we are enabled to lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens ; people may draw near to him, as the Jews of old did \ with their mouth, and with their lips honour...

..." a man for the puni/hment of his " Sins ? Let us fearch and try out " our ways, and turn again to the *' Lord. Let us lift up our heart with "our hands unto Godin the Heavens. So fuitable are thefe, and the following Expreflions to your prefent Situation,...

...of Chriftian celebration. The fécond difcourfe, on the fublimity of devotion, is upon this text , " Let us lift up our heart -with our hands unto God in the heavens," Sam. Jer. iii. 41. A fplendid but perilous fubjedl, becaufe the middle courfe between the extravagance...

...foul, and exalts it above the common condition of humanity. Let us then, as the prophet exhorts, " Lift " up our heart, with our hands unto God in " the heavens." An exhortation on which I will not now expatiate further, nor weaken the impreffion already made by...