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2ZSERMONS.tice and ferious profeiTion ;particularly, that Godmay enable us to be fo influenced by faith, that wemay never forfake religion through the love of thisprefent world." Now unto him that is able to keep us from falling,and to prefent us faultlefs before the prefence ofhis glory with exceeding joy \ to the only wife Godcur Saviour, be glory and majefty, dominion andpower, now and ever* Amen,'*
SERMON 11.SOBER AND RELIGIOUS CONFERENCECONSIDERED AND RECOMMENDED.Preached at the Ordination of the Rev. Mr. John Burns, 1774.WITH THE CHARGE.1'hen t^ey that feared the Lordy fpahe often one to another,and the Lord hearkened and heard it :and a book of re"memhrance was written before him, for them that fearedthe Lord, and that thought upon his name.And they Jhall be mine, faith the Lord of hofls, in that daywhen I make up my jewels ;man fpareth his own fan that fernieth him.and I willfpare them as aThenfloallye return, and difcern between the righteous and .the wicked,between him that ferveth God, and him thatfervethhim not. Mal. iii. 16, 17, 18.T\ EASON-and fpeech are the two principal faculriesby which mankind are diftinguifhed from the animalcreation ; by the ufe of reafon we find out truth^and by fpeech we communicate it to others.And our nature feems to be fo formed, that juftreafoning enableth us to fpeak diftin£lly, and focialconverfation brightens and improves the faculty ofreafoning.As this is the cafe, an inquifitive perfon may, fromthe bare efteem of knowledge, delire te converfe withothers ; the ferious and well-difpofed will, moreover,defire that exercife, becaufe conference, if properlyconduO;ed, is an excellent mean of regulating our afie
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SERMON 11.SOBER AND RELIGIOUS CONFERENCECONSIDERED AND RECOMMENDED.Preached at <strong>the</strong> Ordination <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Rev</strong>. Mr. John Burns, 1774.WITH THE CHARGE.1'hen t^ey that feared <strong>the</strong> Lordy fpahe <strong>of</strong>ten one to ano<strong>the</strong>r,and <strong>the</strong> Lord hearkened and heard it :and a book <strong>of</strong> re"memhrance was written before him, for <strong>the</strong>m that feared<strong>the</strong> Lord, and that thought upon his name.And <strong>the</strong>y Jhall be mine, faith <strong>the</strong> Lord <strong>of</strong> h<strong>of</strong>ls, in that daywhen I make up my jewels ;man fpareth his own fan that fernieth him.and I willfpare <strong>the</strong>m as a<strong>The</strong>nfloallye return, and difcern between <strong>the</strong> righteous and .<strong>the</strong> wicked,between him that ferveth God, and him thatfervethhim not. Mal. iii. 16, 17, 18.T\ EASON-and fpeech are <strong>the</strong> two principal faculriesby which mankind are diftinguifhed from <strong>the</strong> animalcreation ; by <strong>the</strong> ufe <strong>of</strong> reafon we find out truth^and by fpeech we communi<strong>ca</strong>te it to o<strong>the</strong>rs.And our nature feems to be fo formed, that juftreafoning enableth us to fpeak diftin£lly, and focialconverfation brightens and improves <strong>the</strong> faculty <strong>of</strong>reafoning.As this is <strong>the</strong> <strong>ca</strong>fe, an inquifitive perfon may, from<strong>the</strong> bare efteem <strong>of</strong> knowledge, delire te converfe witho<strong>the</strong>rs ; <strong>the</strong> ferious and well-difp<strong>of</strong>ed will, moreover,defire that exercife, be<strong>ca</strong>ufe conference, if properlyconduO;ed, is an excellent mean <strong>of</strong> regulating our afie
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