good works.—Beloved, if Chrift so loved -the inference is unavoidable; and gives ftrength and beauty to every thing elle which can be urged upon the fubAnd therefore I have referved it for my lift and warmeft appeal, with which I would gladly finish this discourse, that at least for their fakes for whom it is preached, we might be left to the full impretion of fo exalted and fo feafonable a motive.-That by reflecting upon the infaite labour of this day's love, in the instance of CHRIST's death, we may confider what an immenfe debt we owe each other; and by calling to mind the amiable pattern of his life, in doing good, we might learn in what manner we may beft difcharge it.

And, indeed, of all the methods in which a good mind would be willing to do it, I believe there can be none more beneficial, or comprehenfive in its effects, than that for which we are here met together-The proper education of poor children being the ground-work of almoft every other kind of charity, as

that which makes every other fubfequent act of it answer the pious expectation of the giver.

Without this foundation first laid, how much kindnefs in the progrefs of a benevolent man's life is unavoidably caft away! and fometimes where it is as fenfeless as the expofing a tender plant to all the inclemencies of a cruel season, and then going with forrow to take it in, when the root is already dead. I said, therefore, this was the foundation of almost every kind of charity,-and might one not have added, of all policy too? fince the many ill confequences which attend the want of it, though grievously felt by the parties themselves, are no less fo by the community of which they are members; and moreover, of all mifchiefs feem the hardest to be redreffed -Infomuch, that when one confiders the difloyal feductions of popery on one hand, and on the other, that no bad man, whatever he profeffes, can be a good fubject, one may venture to say, it had been cheaper and better for the na

4. To have bare the expence of inftill

g fan i prmcipies and good morals the weg tested children of the lower pm, corolls in fame parts of Great braut, shur to be obliged, to often as WE GAVE PAY whir this laft century, to "A vi an, are currieless against the re

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like circumstances), when Antipater demanded of them fifty children, as hoftages for the fecurity of a diftant engagement, they made this brave and wife answer," they would not,-they "could not confent:they would ra"ther give him double the number of "their beft grown up men."-Intimating, that, however they were distreffed, they would chufe any inconvenience rather than fuffer the lofs of their country's education; and the opportunity (which if once loft can never be regained) of giving their youth an early tincture of religion, and bringing them up to a love of industry, and a love of the laws and conftitution of their country.-If this fhews the great importance of a proper education to children of all ranks and conditions, what fhall we fay then of those whom the providence of GOD has placed in the very loweft lot of life, utterly caft out of the way of knowledge, without a parent,-fometimes may be without a friend to guide and inftruct them, but what common pity and the

neceflity of their fad fituation engage:

- where the dangers which furround them on every fide are fo great and many, that for one fortunate paffenger in life, who makes his way well in the world. with fuch early difadvantages, and fo difmal a fetting out, we may reckon thoutands, who every day fuffer fhipwreck, and are loit for ever.

It there is a cafe under heaven which calls out aloud for the more immediate excrcite of compaffion, and which may be looked upon as the compendium of all charity, furely it is this: and I am perfuaded there would want nothing more to convince the greatest enemy to thefe kinds of charities that it is fo, but a bare opportunity of taking a nearer view of fome of the more diftrefsful objects of it.

Let him go into the dwellings of the unfortunate, into fome mournful cottage, where poverty and affliction reign together. There let him behold the difconfolate widow-fitting-fteeped in tears; thus forrowing over the infant