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CHRISTIAN MORALITY,
VIE. JUSTICE,
&C.
[SERM.
XXy
our
neighbour,
and
to dwell
amongst
us,
that
he
might
teach
us to
love
our
,neighbours
as
ourselves.
Behold
the glorious
Son
of God
subjecting himself
to
his
earthly parents,
to
Joseph
the
carpenter,
and
to
Mary
his
mother,
that
he might
instruct
us how to pay
obedience
to
our
superior
relations.
See how
the King
of
kings pays
tribute
to
Ccesar,
when
he
was
so
poor,
that
he
was
forced to
send
Peter
a
fishing,
to
procure
the
tri-
bute
-money
by
a
miracle. And though the beasts
of the
field were
his,
and he
could
have commanded
the
cattle
upon
a thousand
hills,
to make provision for
his
fol-
lowers;
yet,
he would
not
dispossess
the
owners
of
them,
but
created
food on
purpose
to feed
four and
five
thousand
in
the wilderness.
III.,
If
we
consider
Christ
as
a glorious benefactor,
who has
taken care to provide for
us
the necessaries
of
this
life,
and bath purchased
for
us,
at
the hands
of God,
the eternal
treasures
of
heaven and
glory.
Has not
this
blessed
consideration force enough
to
guard
us
against
all
temptations
to injustice
?
Shall a
christian break
the
rules
of
equity,
and
steal,
or cheat, or
plunder
his
neighbour to
gain money
or
rnerchandize,
who
has the
promises
of
God
for
his
support
in
a
way
of
diligence and humble
faith
?
Shall
we
sully
our
consciences, and defile
our
souls with knavery
and
injustice
for a
little
of
the
pelf
of
this world, when
we
have the unsearchable riches
of
'.Christ
made over
to
us
in
the
gospel, and
the
inheritance
of
heaven
in
reversion
?
IV.
Let
us
consider
the
very
nature and
design
of
the
gospel
of
Christ,
it
is
to
make sinners
holy, to
make the
unjust righteous
:.
The
new man
of
christianity must
be
created
in
righteousness and
true
holiness.
Therefore
are
we
purchased
with the blood
of
Christ,
that
we
might
be
a peculiar
people, zealous
of
good works.
Tit.
ii.
14.
It
is
a
shame
and scandal
to
the christian
name, when
one
who wears
it
is
unrighteous
or dishonest. An unjust
christian, what a contradiction
is
it
in itself,
and
how
it
di:,graces
the profession
of
the
gospel.
F
Hear
how
the
great
apostle treats
his
Corinthian
disciples when such
sort of
sins
were
found amongst them
;
1
Cor,
vi.
i,
K.
"
Dare
any
of
you,
having
a
matter
against another, go
to
law
before
the unjust and the
infidel.
Dare
any