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CHRi571AM latORAI.ITY,
.vIZ.
tstIIM.
means
in
order
o
obtain
whit
they want, or
at
least
what they
fancy they want
for
the
comfortable support
of
life.
The
word
Of
God
has many
engaging promises
in
it, to those
who
arecliligent
in
their duty
:
Though
the
snug
of
the sluggard desireth,
and
bath nothing;
yet
the soul
'of
the diligent
shall
be
made fat,
Prey.
xiii. 4.
It
is
the
'hand
of a
diligent
man
that
maketh
rich,
for
it
hath
the blessing
of
the Lord-upon
it.
God
can
increase
the
handful'of
irreal in
the
'barrel, and
lengthen
out the
stream
of
oil
from
the little
cruse,
that
the
debts
of
the
widow may be
paid
Thereby,
and
her
family find
provi-
sion,
1
Kings
xvii. i%
14.
And even since
the
days
of
Miracles have ceased,
,
there
are
many Christians who
have lived
'by
faith,
And
have found wonders
of
support,
not
much inferior
to
this
ancient
miracle.
Pint those-who
know
not
the
'way
of living by
faith,
are too
ready
to
-indulge
themselves
in
some
little
pilfer
-
ing
or
`cheating methods
to procure
a
subsistence.
Thus
unbeli-efhas a plain
tendency
to
u-mighteousness,
but
he
that
believeth
shall
not
make haste,
Zs.
xxviii.
16.
He
that
believes
the
care
of
God
toward
his own
people, and
puts
Iris
trust
in
-his
'Redeemer,
who
is
Lord of
all
things,
he
that
lives
upon
the
covenant
of God
daily,
he
shall
not
make haste
-to
make himself rich,
or to
possess
him-
self of the.
comforts
of
life by
any methods
of
injustice;
his
faith and
diligence
Shall
be -rewarded
at least
with
daily bread.
And
now
having
finished
this'
subject,
I
must
begpar
don
of
my
reader for
insisting
so
largely
on
those two
virtues,
justice
and truth,
in my
text. But
-they
are of
so
-divine
-a
necessity
to
make
up
the character of
a
chris-
tian,
they
are
of
so
-valuable
importance
to
the
glory
of
the
gospel,
and
so
shameful
an
inroad
has
been made
upon
them
in
various instances
in our degenerate
age,
that
I
u
-as `uvilling
to
attempt
something
to retrieve
this
part
of
godliness
:
Arid
.0
may
the convincing and
sanc-
tifying
Spirit of
God
attend
it
with his
sacred
influences,
that
those
who
are'calledby'the'sacred
name
of-christiati;
may
never
bring
'a
blemish
upon
it
by
deserving the cha-
racter's
of
false
and unjust
!
[The
Second
Part
of
this
Sermon.]
The
next
virtue mentioned
in my
text,
is
'purity; -what
soever
things are
pure,think
on these things.