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einRxstIAN
MORALITY,
VIZ. JUSTICE,
&C.
CSERM.
XXV,
HYMN
FOR
SERMON XXIV.
CHRISTIAN MORALITY, viz. JUSTICE AND EQUITY.
COMMON
METRE.
COME,
let
us
search our ways,
and try,
Have they
been
just
and right
?
Is
the great rule
of
equity
Our practice and delight?
What
we
would have our neighbour do,
Have
we
still done the same
?
And
ne'er delay'd
to
pay
his
due,
or
injur'd
his good
name
?
Do
we
relieve the
poor
distress'd
?
Nor
give
our tongues a
loose,
To make
their
names our scorn
and
jest,
Nor
treat
them with abuse
?
Have we not
found our
envy
grow,
To
bear another's praise?
Nor
robb'd
him
of
his
honour
due,
By
sly malicious
ways?
In
all
we
sell,
and all
we
buy,
Is justice
our design
?
Do
we
remember God
is
nigh,
And fear
the
wrath divine
?
In
vain
we
talk of Jesus' blood,
And
boast his name in vain,
If
we
can slight the
laws
of
God,
And
prove
unjust to men.
SERMON
XXV.
CHRISTIAN MORALITY,
viz.
JUSTICE,
&c.
PHILIP. iv.
S.
Whatsoever things
are
just,
&c.--think
on'
these
things.
IF
a bare proposal
of
the
rule
of
duty,
and
the men-
tion
of
the various instances
of
it,
were sufficient
to per-
suade mankind
to
the
practice;
then
I
need
not
prolong
my discourse on
this
subject
of
honesty and
justice:
For
I
have
already proposed the sacred rule
which
our
Savi-
our
has
given us,
Dó
to
others as
ye
would'
that
others
should
do
to
you; and
I
have
described the several
in-
stances
wherein,
this
rule
must direct
our conduct,
that
*e
may be
just
and
righteous
in
all
our
dealings amongst
men.
But
alas
!
our
natures
are
so
corrupt,
our
consciences
are
so
unwilling
tó
receive the
laws
of
duty,
and
our per-
verse
wills
and
passions have
so
much reluctance
to
the
practice,
that
we
have need
of
arguments
to
enforce
it
upon
conscience,
we
have
need
of
powerful motives to
awaken
our
souls
to righteousness; and
it
is
necessary
therefore
that I
proceed
to the third head
of
discourse