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SERMON XX.
CHRISTIAN MORALITY,
viz.
TRUTH, SINCERITY,
&cc,
PHILIP.
iv, 8.
Finally, brethren,
whatsoever things are
true,
whatsoever
things
are
'honest,
or grave,
whatsoever
things
-are
just,
whatsoever
things are
.
pure,
whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are
of
good
'report;
if
there
be any virtue,
and if there
be
any praise, think
on`
these things.
Ocia
ssw
aryz&n,
&c.
FAITH
and practice make
up
the whole
of
our
reli-
gion
:
A
sacred compound, and
divinely
necessary
to
our
happiness and
our
heaven
!
Nor
does
the
blessed
apostle
in
any
of
his
writings ever dwell
so
entirely
on
one
of
them, as to
forget the
other. In
this
letter to
the
saints
at
Philippi, practice has the largest
share.
Through
every
chapter
he
scatters up and
down
particu-
lar
directions for
the
conduct
of
those believers
who
dwelt among the gentiles;
but
he gives
them
two
general
rules,
by
which they
were to walk.
The
first
is
in the beginning
of
his
epistle
;
Philip.
i.
27.
Let
your conversation
be as
becomes the
gospel Act
always
agreeably
to the
temper
and
design
of that
gospel,
which brings salvation_by
Jesus
Christ, and then you
will
certainly practise
every virtue,
of
life
;
your carriage
can
never
be amiss.
And toward the
latter
end
Of
his
letter
he
saith, Finally,
brethren,
before
I
take
my
leave
of
you,
I
would give
you
another
general rule to
direct your practice
:
I
would recommend
holiness
to you
under
another
view,
and
describe
it
in
such
colours and characters,
as will
not
only
approve
themselves to
your
fellow
christians,
but
even to
the heathens among
whom yod
live,
that
you
may
be, as he
expresses
it
in chap.
ii..
ver.
15.
that
ye
may be blameless
and
harmless,
the
sons
of God
without
rebuke
in
a wicked and perverse nation, among
whom
ye
shine
as
lights in the
world;
that
they
that
have
a
mind
to
speak
evil
of
christianity,
and cast
what
re-