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eH1tiSTTAN
IsfORkLITV, VIZ.
TiStRM. XCTTI.
2.
Let
us
remember
that
we
are the
sons
and daugh-
ters
of
the most
high
God.
We
profess
to
separate
our
-
selves from
the
triflings
and impertinences
of
this world,
as
well as
from
the impiety and guilt
of
it.
"
Come
out
from
among
them,
saith the Lord, and
I
will be
your
Father, and
ye
shall be
my sons
and
my
daughters,
sait).
Cxod
almighty." Surely the children
of
a
prince
should
behave
with
solemnity and honour,
when they
are
in
the
midst
of
the lower orders
of mankind
;
and
the
children
of
the King
of
heaven should
remember the dignity
of
their
birth, and
their
high
relation,
when they
are con-
versant
among the
sons
of
earth.
Their
carriage indeed
should
not
be
proud and
haughty
to
the
men
of
this
world
;
Jesus, the
only
begotten
Sont was meek
and
Jowly
:
And there
is
a
sacred
art
of maintaining
a
divine
humility, among the
meanest
of
our
fellow-
creatures,
without
indulging the practice
of
any thing mean and ri-
diculous.
Our
blessed
Lord
was
a companion
of
fisher-
men,
but not
of
mimics
and
public
jesters.
S.
Let
us
think
again;
that
we
are bought
with
a
high
and
valuable
price;
we
are redeemed,
not
with
cor-
ruptible
things, as silver
'and
gold, but
with the
precious
;blood
of
Christ,
as
of
a
lamb without blemish, and
with-
out
spot,
I
Pet.
i. 17, 18.
And what
is
it that
we
are re-
deemed
from
?
It
is
from this
evil world,
and
from
a
vain
conversation.
The
Son
of God hath
loved
us,
and
washed
us in
his own blood,
and
shall
we
defile
these
souls
of
ours with the meannesses
of
this life which
Christ
hath
cleansed in
so
rich
a
laver
?
He
bath made
us
kings
and priests unto God and
his
Father.
Let
us
now
and
then
ask ourselves
and enquire,
is
our
language
and behaviour
becoming such
illustrious
names, such
titles,
such honours, as
are
put
upon
us
by
the Father
and the
Son
?
4.
Again,
let
us review
our
profession
:
What
is
our
calling?
What
is
our
design?
What
is
our hope?
Are
we
nol
born
from
above? Are
we
not
pilgrims and
strangers
here
?
Do not
we
profess to seek
a better
country,
that
is,
a heavenly
?
Do not
we
live for heaven
and
immortality.? How unbecoming
is
it
then
for
chris-
.tians
to be
perpetually
light,
and
vain,
and frothy
?
How
unbecoming
our
holy
and
heavenly
calling,
and our
everlasting hopes?
If
we
are children of
the light and
of
the
day,
let
us
not
live
as though
we belotwed
to
the