participates. This corrupting principl coming in contact with it, whatever in and noble.

"The heart is deceitful above all thi perately wicked, who can know it?" tion and interrogation we read with o and being a portion of scripture, we th not be decent to controvert it. We re with a secret reservation, that it is only all the rest of the world that is meant, a make the application which the Scriptu Each individual hopes that there is on may escape the charge, and he makes t ception in favour of his own.

As a theory, we are ready enough to knowledge; yet when the practice come we are as blindfold as if our happiness our ignorance. One of the first duties o Christian, is to endeavour to conquer t to the self-denying doctrines against w man heart so sturdily stands out. The incredible pains for the acquisition of The philosopher cheerfully consumes oil in his laborious pursuits; he willing food and rest to conquer a difficulty in s the labour is pleasant, the fatigue is grat difficulty is not without its charms. so differently in our religious pursuits? the most arduous human studies, there diction of self, there is no opposition to t is no combat of the affections.

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bere is a certain deace of mind, which wiữ vệ restrain a well beet maa 5 m sredad bERALES, be led by i taste pertigs, not only to 2000e the excesses but to admire the theory of viste. By resisting s vice, he faders self that be is a temperate , and that be has made all the sacrifices which Senial requires. Thus satisfied, be compares self with those who have sunk into coarser indulcies, and triumphs in the dignity of his own cha

er.

There is, if the expression may be allowed, a sort religious self-deceit, and affectation of humility, ch is in reality full of self, which is entirely occu d with self, which resolves all importance into what cerns self, which only looks at things as they re to self. This religious vanity operates in two ys. While we affect to charge ourselves with more ruption than is attributed to us, we are offended at imputation of the smallest individual fault. While lament our general want of all goodness, we cons d for every particle that is disputed.

Humility does not consist in telling our faults, but bearing to be told of them; in hearing them pa- ; ntly and even thankfully; in correcting ourselves en told, and in esteeming those who tell us of them, we were little in our own eyes, and felt our real ingnificance, we should avoid false humility as much more obvious vanity; but we seldom dwell on our ults except in a general way, and rarely on those

of which we are really guilty. We do of being contradicted, and thus of being the secret good opinion we entertain of

The great, the only effectual antidote is to get the love of God and of our neig rooted in the heart. Yet let us ever b that dependance on our fellow-creature fully to be avoided, as love of them is t ted. There is none but God, on whom ples of love and dependance form but of

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The Doctrine

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THE HOLY SPIRIT.

NO. 10.

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The importance of the subject which t remarks are designed to illustrate, will, it ensure them an attentive perusal.

The doctrine of the influence of the Holy mind, being of general application, resting less than Christianity itself, it will readily a knowledge of it is inseparable from Chris and the enjoyment of true happiness.

It was desirable that the proofs upon wh ments were founded, should be incorporated this, however, could not be done, without tract to too great a size.

These proofs being drawn from the Bib which, it is to be hoped, most have in po earnestly recommended to the reader, to ferences to the several texts to which they