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CHRISTIAbr MORALITY,
VIZ.
fSSRM. CXVIII,
attempt
to afford him,
nor
does
.
he
give
them
any
grief
or
uneasiness
but
what
they feel
through the
force
of
mere
sympathy
and
compassion
?
Thus, even in the midst
of
calamities,
he
knits the
hearts
of
his
friends faster to
himself,
and
lays
greater
obligations,
upon
their
love
by
so
lovely
and 'divine
a'conduct
under the
weight
of
his
heavy sorrows.
.
VI. Love-to
mankind in
the
various branches
of
it
is
a
most
lovely quality,
andd
well
becomes
a
christian.
Should.
I speak
of
love
iu
the heart,
which
ever
thinks
.
the bestcóncerning
others,.
and
wishes
and
seeks
their
welfare and
happiness:
Should.
I
speak
of
it
as it works
on the tongue, and appears
in
all
frieridly.langu:age,
ivhether
the object
be
present or afar
off
:
Should
"I
de-
scribe
it
as
it discovers itself
in
the
hand
of
assistance
and
bounty,
to relieve the
poor
and
helpless
:
Each
of
these would
yield sufficient
matter
for
a
whole
discourse;
and
this
grace
would
appear
lovely
in all
its
forms.
It
is
a
pain
to
my
thoughts
to
omit
it
here:
"'Methinks
I
can
hardly
tell
how
to
let
it
go,
without large. encomiums:
Nor
could
I
prevail
with
myself to
pass
it
over
now with
so-
brief
a
mention,
if
I
did not
design
to
employ an
hour
or
two an
this 'subject
hereafter.
[The
Second
Part
of
this
Sermon.]
I
proceed to
shety
how
the
very light
of
nature
recom-
mends every agreeable and .obliging
character
;
every
lovely
quality
that
is
found among mankind and
rea-
son exhorts
us
to
the acquirement and practice
of
it.
I. Our
own
interest
directs
us to
it..
It
is
a natural
good quality, and
a
most
useful
thing to
desire
the love
of
others,
to
seek
the
favour
of
our
fellow-
creatures.
It
is a
very lawful
ambition
to
covet the
good-will
of
those
with
whom
we
converse
;
and
to
pursue
such
practices
as may
procure
us
a place in
their
good
opinion and
friendship. We
who
are
born for
society,
must
natu-
rally
desire
to
stand
well
with
mankind;
and
that
our
neighbours should
wish
our
welfare,
should
treat
us
with
decency,
and
civility,
and
love
;
should assist
our into:
rest,
and
do
us good
when
we
stand
in need
of
them
And
if
so,
then
the
rule of justice
obliges us to
practise
the saine towards
them, which
we
desire they should
practise towards
us.
The
more
we
exercise
of
humility,
irreekness,
patience, charity,
aid
good
-will
towards
our