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CHRISTIAN MORALITY,
Viz.
tSERM.
XXIII.
and bravely
resigns
his life
upon the
spot, he dies
a
mar-
tyr to
truth
;
his
name shall
be
registered
with honour
among
the saints
of God
on
earth, and
his soul
shall have
its
place among the martyrs
in the
upper
world.
HYMN
FOR
SERMON
XXII.
FAITHFULNESS.
LONG
HAW'
God been faithful to
his word,
And sent
to
amen
the promis'd
grace,
Shall
I
not imitate the Lord,
And practise what
my
lips profess?
Rath
Christ fulfill'd
his
kind design,
T4Ic
dreadful
work he
undertook,
And
dy'd
to
make salvation mine,
And well perform'd
whate'er
he spoke?
METRE.
Doth
not his faithfulness afford,
A
noble theme to raise
my
song?
And shall
I
dare deny
my
Lord,
Or
utter
falsehood with
my
tongue?
My king,
my
Saviour, and my God
!
Let
grace
my
sinful
soul
renew,
Wash
my offences
with
thy blood,
And
make my
heart
sincere and
true.
SERMON
XXIII.
CHRISTIAN MORALITY, vez. GRAVITY, DECENCY,
&c.
PHILIP. iv.
8.
Whatsoever things are honest, or grave,
erc.
--
-think
on
these
things'.
Ouz
crsgvr2,
&C.
SINCE
the translation of
the bible
into
the English
tongue
is so
excellent a performance
in
itself,
and
so
necessary a service
to
the
church;
I
feel
a sensible regret,
whenever there
is
occasion
to
complain
of
it,
or
to
cor-
rect
it.
In
the
main,
I
may
venture
to
say
boldly,
it
teaches
us all
the necessary
doctrines and duties
of
Christianity in
a very ample and complete manner,
and
sets
them
in
an
evident light:
And
what the Spirit
of
God
spoke
in
ancient
times in
Greek
and
Hebrew,
is
sufficiently
manifested
to us
for
our
salvation
in the
English bible.
But
in
this
part of
the
verse, which
I
am
now
to dis-
course
of,
the word
which
we
render
honest,
is
not
sa
well
translated
as
I
could wish; for honesty
is
contained
in
the words
true
and
just,
which go
before,
and
follow