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CHRISTIAN MORALITY,
VIZ.
JUSTICE,
ótC.
tSERM.
XXVI,
church or
a
kingdom
to
sink
and
perish, and let the
public pèace
be broken,
and the
nation
dissolved,
if
it.
;night
but
secure itself and
its own possessions
in
the
midst
of
those ruins.
An
accursed
vice.
An iniquity
big with misery
and desolation
!
yet
it
hides
itself
too of-
ten
from conviction
and reproof; it
runs
like
a
river
under ground, and attempts
to conceal
itself under
thee
specious
disguises
of
frugality
and
virtue,
while
it prac-
tises
all
the
mischiefs
we
have
been describing.
II.
Pride
is
another
spring
of
injustice.
But having
broken
up the
fountain of
covetousness as,
of a great
deep, and traced
it
in
its various streams, the
labour
of
drying them up has employed
so
much
time,
that
the
pursuit
of
the
other
springs
of
únrìghteousness must be
delayed till a
further
season..
HYMN
FOR SERMON
XXV.
CHRISTIAN MORALITY;
viz,
JUSTICE
and TRUTH-
LONG
'''""
REAT
God,
thy holy
law requires.
To
curb our covetous desires,
Forbids to
plunder,
steal
or
cheat,
To
practise falsehood
or
deceit.
Thy
Son
hath
set
a
pattern
too,
He
paid
to
God and men
their
due;
A
dreadful debt
he
paid
to
God,
And bought our pardon with his blood.
Amazing
justice!-
boundless love
!
Do
we
not feel our passions move?
Do
we not
grieve
that
we
have
been
Faithless
to
God,
or
false to men
?
METRE.
Have
we no
righteous
debt denied,
Through wanton luxury
or
pride?
Nor vex'd the poor with
long
delay,
And
made them groan
for
want_
of pay
!
Have
we
ne'er
thrown
a
needless
steamer
Or
scandal
on our
neighbour's name?
O
happy
men,
whose
age and
youth;
llave
ever
dealt
in love and
truth
s
But if
our
justice
once
be gone,
And leave our faith and
hope
alone;
If
honesty be banish'd hence,
Religion
is
a vain pretence.