-that trifles, light as air, shall be able to make the hearts of some men sing for joy; -at the same time that others, with real blessings and advantages, without the power of using them, have their hearts heavy and discontented.

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us -the height of station or worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness. Sermon xliv.

AGAINST HASTY OPINION.

There are numbers of circumstances which attend every action of a man's life, which can never come to the knowledge of the world, yet ought to be known, and well weighed, before sentence, with any justice, can be passed upon him.—A man may have different views, and a different sense of things from what his judges have; and what he understands and feels, and what passes within him, may be a secret treasured up deeply there for ever.-A man, through bodily infirmity, or some complexional defect, which, perhaps, it is not in his power to correct, may be subject to inadvertencies, to starts,-and unhappy turns of temper; he may lie open to snares ne is not always aware of; or, through ig

norance and want of information and proper helps, he may labour in the dark-in all which cases he may do many things which are wrong in themselves, and yet be innocent; at least an object rather to be pitied, than censured with severity and ill-will. -These are difficulties which stand in every one's way in the forming a judgment of the characters of others.

VANITY.

Sermon xliv.

Vanity bids all her sons to be generous and brave, and her daughters to be chaste and courteous. But why do we want her instructions? Ask the comedian, who is taught a part he feels not. Sermon xvii.

AFFECTED HONESTY.

Look out of your door,-take notice of that man see what disquieting, intriguing and shifting, he is content to go through, merely to be thought a man of plain-dealing-three grains of honesty would save him all this trouble-alas! he has them not. Sermon xvii.

AFFECTED PIETY.

Behold a second, under a show of piety, hiding the impurities of a debauched life. he is just entering the house of God:

would he were more pure-or less pious; -but then he could not gain his point. Sermon xvii.

AFFECTED SANCTITY.

Observe a third going on almost in the same track: with what an inflexible sanctitude of deportment he sustains himself as he advances-every line in his face writes abstinence; every stride looks like a check upon his desires: see, I beseech you, how he is cloaked up with sermons, prayers, and sacraments; and so bemuffled with the externals of religion, that he has not a hand to spare for a worldly purpose; he has armour at least-Why does he put it on? Is there no serving God without all this? Must the garb of religion be extended so wide, to the danger of its rending? Yes, truly, or it will not hide the secret-and what is that That the saint has no reli

gion at all.

Sermon xvii

OSTENTATIOUS GENEROSITY.

-But here comes Generosity;-giving not to a decayed artist-but to the arts and sciences themselves,- -See!-he builds not a chamber on the wall apart for the prophet; but whole schools and colleges for those who come after. Lord! how

they will magnify his name! 'tis in capitals already; the first, the highest, in the gilded rent-roll of every hospital and asylum. -One honest tear, shed in private over the unfortunate, is worth it all.

Sermon xvii

OPINION.

We are perpetually in such engagements and situations, that 'tis our duties to speak what our opinions are-but God forbid that this should ever be done but from its best motive-the sense of what is due to virtue, governed by discretion, and the utmost fellow-feeling were we to go on otherwise, beginning with the great broad cloak of hypocrisy, and so down through all its little trimmings and facings, tearing away without mercy all that looked seemly, we should leave but a tattered world of it.

Sermon xvii.

DEFAMATION.

Does humanity clothe and educate the unknown orphan ?- -Poverty, thou hast no genealogies;-See! is he not the father of the child? Thus do we rob heroes of the best part of their glory-their virtue Take away the motive of the act, you take away all that is worth having in it

wrest it to ungenerous ends, you load the virtuous man who did it with infamy undo it all I beseech you, give him back his honour, restore the jewel you have taken from him-replace him in the eye of the world—

It is too late.

RELIGION.

Sermon xvii.

There are no principles but those of religion to be depended on in cases of real distress; and these are able to encounter the worst emergencies, and to bear us up, under all the changes and chances to which our life is subject.

ELOQUENCE.

Sermon xv.

Great is the power of eloquence; but never is it so great as when it pleads along with nature, and the culprit is a child strayed from his duty, and returned to it again with tears.

GENEROSITY.

Sermon xx.

Generosity sorrows as much for the overmatched, as Pity herself does. Sermon xx.

CORPORAL TRIM'S DEFINITION OF RADICAL HEAT AND MOISTURE.

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