In this and the foregoing SERMONS the READER is defired to correct and excufe the following ERRATA.

Page 9 for cavelling read cavilling. Page 10 et alibi for poffitive read pofitive. Page 11 et alibi for incontrovertable read incontrovertible. Page 13 et alibi for redicule read ridicule. Page 19 for couragious read courageous. Page 13 et alibi, for buffited read buffeted. Page 41 et alibi for difpife read defpife. Page 48 for difpair read defpair. Page 53 et alibi for Gaity read Gaiety. Page 59 for deftributing read diftributing. Page 64 for loose read lofe. Page 77 for difcrited read described. Page 77 et alibi for Paradice read Paradife. Page 79 for Suerty read Surety. Page 84 for hidious read hideous. Page 95 et alibi for unchangeble read unchangeable. Page 101 for Calvery read Calvary. Page 107 for Recumbancy read Recumbency. Page 108 for Hufbands read Husband's. Page 108 for confidered read confidered. Page 110 for beliveth read believeth. Page 114 et alibi for bare read bear. Page 115 for Zeraphs read Seraphs. Page 125 for acquiting read acquitting. Page 136 for fhall beg Leave read, I fhall beg Leave. Page 142 for difpiteful read defpiteful. Page 148 for preceed read precede. Page 161 for Incumbrance read Encumbrance. Page 187 for Noral-Honefty read Moral-Honesty.

Marriage honorable, Whoredom damnable:

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tr A happy Marriage has in it all the Pleasures of Friend'fhip, all the Enjoyments of Senfe and Reason, and in"deed, all the Sweets of Life. Nothing is a greater "Mark of a degenerate and vicious Age, than the com"mon Ridicule which paffes on this State of Life. It "is, indeed, only happy in those who can look down "with Scorn or Neglect on the Impieties of the Times, " and tread the Paths of Life together in a constant uni"form Courfe of Virtue. SPECTATOR,

"All Bread is fweet to a Whoremonger; he will not leave

"off till he die. A Man that breaketh Wedlock, faying "thus in his Heart, Who feeth me? I am compaffed "about with Darkness, the Walls cover me, and no

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Body feeth me, what need I to fear, the Moft-High "will not remember my Sins? Such a Man only fear"eth the Eyes of Men, and knoweth not that the Eyes of "the Lord are ten thousand Times brighter than the "Sun, beholding all the Ways of Men, and confidering "the moft fecret Parts ".

WISE SON OF SIRACH.

The Prayer before Sermon.

Almighty Lord and Everlasting God,

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whofe bleffed Son was manifefted that he might deftroy the Works of the Devil, and make us the Sons of GOD, and Heirs of eternal Life; grant us we beseech thee, that having this Hope, we may purify ourselves, even as he is pure; that when he shall appear again with Power and great Glory, we may made like unto him in his eternal and glorious Kingdom. To this End fucceed the Means of Grace we now enjoy. Inspire our Breasts with an earnest Defire of knowing and of doing thy whole Will. Fill our Minds with juft, loyal, and honorable Thoughts of God; and with Harmony, Peace, and Good-Will towards one another. May Swearing, Adultery, Fornication, Lying and Slandering, ceafe from among us. May Extortion, unjust Dealing, and Excess in all its Kinds, be known no more. And may Truth, Juftice, Integrity and Uprightness, reign, prevail and flourish. May we live as the Redeemed

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deemed of the Lord, and when we die, may we die the Death of the Righteous. Now unto him that is able to keep us from falling, and to prefent us faultless, pure and unspotted, before the Presence of his Glory with exceeding Joy, be Honor and Dominion, Majesty and Power, for ever and ever, Amen.

Our Father &c.

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