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you will as furely hear, as he who has declared you shall fee and hear them, is faithful and true.

One thing only remains to be mentioned, that He who shall addrefs thofe on the right hand in the gracious language of the text, fhall afterward fay alfo to "them on the

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left hand, Depart from me, ye curfed, "into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil "and his angels; for I was an hungred, "and ye gave me no meat; I was thirsty, "and ye gave me no drink; I was a ftranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and 66 ye clothed me not; fick and in prison, " and ye vifited me not." On their asking, likewife, when he was feen of them in any of thefe afflicting circumftances, and they had thus ungratefully denied him relief; "he shall answer them; Inafmuch as ye " did it not to one of the least of these my brethren, ye did it not to me." The final feparation is then to be made, and that gulph fixed between them, which cannot be paf

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fed; "And thefe"-fuch as had neglected DISC. to perform works of charity" these shall

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go away into everlasting punishment ; "but the righteous," they who had performed them, "into life eternal." The brethren of Chrift are before you Make your choice.

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DISCOURSE XIV.

THE PARALYTIC HEALED.

MATT. IX. 2.

And behold, they brought to him a man fick of the palfy, lying on a bed: and Jefus feeing their faith, faid unto the fick of the pally, Son, be of good cheer; thy fins be forgiven thee.

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HE active and elementary parts of DISC. nature, wherefoever they exift, will manifeft themselves by their effects; fire will warm, light will shine, aromatics will fend forth fweet odours. Jefus, in like manner, on all occafions difcovers himfelf to be what his names implies, the SAVIOUR; leaving behind him, in every place,

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evangelical doctrine, and the fragrance of a good report concerning fomething done for the benefit of man, and the glory of God. He goeth about, not to gratify or to profit himself, but to diffuse his beneficence. He either teaches, or comforts, or raises from the dead, or heals, or feeds, or delivers, or departs into folitude to pray. And all for us. For us he preaches, that we may learn the truth; for us he heals, and performs other miracles, that we may believe him; for us no lefs he retires, for us he prays, for us he gives thanks to his Father. Thus he changes his fituation often, his difpofition never; in this, as well as other things, leaving us an example, that we should fol"low his fteps," and not fuffer any outward difference of circumftances to make us forget our Christian profeffion.

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The Gergefenes, as we find by the conclufion of the preceding chapter, preferring the prefervation of their fwine to the falvation of their fouls, and therefore" de

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