like the fiining tight. 285 you then imagine, that to be jai in your S E R M. dealings with mankind, is fufficient to make XII. you the true difciples of Jefus Chrifl, and `'Y"-"' give you confidence towards him, when he fhall come to judge the world, while you indulge yourfelves in fotne fecret vices, con - trary to fobriety ? Or that freedom from thefe, in conjun1ion with the other, will be fufficient, while the neceffary offices of moral piety are negleEled ? or will you on the other hand think that to be devout, to abound in the inflituted fervices of religion, is enough to the purpofes of chriffianity, while you are unrighteous and uncharitable ? No; this is not to be chriflians, this is not the path of the full, for it comprehends all the parts of our duty. See what the apoflle St. yames fays exprefsly in the fecond chapter of his epiftle, and loth verfe : wh f ever jhall keep the whole law, and yet J nd in one point (habitually, or wilfully and deliberately) he is guilty of all. Having made this remark, which I thought neceffary, to give us a true idea of the path of the jufl, that is, of religious virtue, as it is exemplified in human cha- raEters, or, as it is reduced to pratice by men having infirmity, which, tho' it be itnperfeff,
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