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XXI.1
TRUTH, SINCEAITY,
&C.
3¢9
deceit and
falsehood
?
Do
I
neither flatter
my
neigh-
bour,
nor
spread
a false
report of
him
?
Am
I
watchful
to
make
no promises,
but
what
I
mean sincerely to ful-
fil?
And am
I
as
careful to
perform
my vows
and
all
my
engagements? Am
I
sincere
in
the profession
of
godliness,
and
constant
in my
practice
of it at
all
times
and circumstances, in
all
places
and companies
whatso-
ever
?"
Let
us
ask
our hearts
again,
`c
While
we
bave
heard
this
discourse,
how
many
of
us
have
sat here judging
our
neighbours,
and not
ourselves
:
Have
we
been
distribut-
ing
abroad
the shameful
characters
of
insincerity, false-
hood, unfaithfulness, and inconstancy, among
our
ac-
quaintance
?
Or
have
we
applied the
words
as
a
test to
our
own souls, as
a trial of our christianity
?
Have
we
taken a secret and
malicious
pleasure
in fixing
these
scandals
upon others? Or
have
we
begged
of
God
to
fix
the conviction upon ourselves
if
we
are
guilty
?
And
which
of
us
can
stand
up and
say in
the
face
of
heaven,
We are innocent, entirely
innocent
of
all these charges
?"
O
may
the
blessed Spirit,
the
Convincer
and the Sancti
fier, shew
each
of
us
our
own
concern in
this sermon,
awaken each
of
us
to
a sense
of
our
own
iniquities,
and
by
his
almighty grace
work
in
us
repentance, and restore
us to
truth
and holiness
!
SERMON
XXI.
CHRISTIAN MORALITY,
viz.
TRUTH, SINCERITY,
Ste.
PHILIP. iv.
S.
Whatsoever things are
true,
think
on
these things..
TRUTH
is
a name
of
wide
extent.
It
includes
in
it
the
blessings
of
the head
and
the heart.
Happy
the man
whose
head
is
furnished
with
a large
knowledge
of
divine
and human truth,
and
so
far delivered
from
mistakes
and errors,
as to lay a
foundation
for
wisdom
and holi-
.ness
!
But all the
furniture
of
the
head
is
not
sufficient