fhe knows not how to fuccour.-"O my child, thou art now left expofed to a "wide and a vicious world, too full of "fnares and temptations for thy tender "and unpractifed age. Perhaps a pa"rent's love may magnify thofe dangers "But when I confider thou art driven " out naked into the midft of them "without friends, without fortune, "without inftruction, my heart bleeds "beforehand for the evils which may come upon thee. GOD, in whom we "trufted, is witnefs, fo low had his "providence placed us, that we never indulged one wish to have made thee "rich,-virtuous we would have made thee;for thy father, my husband, "was a good man, and feared the Lord, "--and though all the fruits of his "care and induftry were little enough "for our fupport, yet he honeftly had "determined to have fpared fome por"tion of it, fcanty as it was, to have << placed thee fafely in the way of know"ledge and inftruction-But alas! he " is gone from us, never to return more, * and with "dong For, Bébull am redite 14 come upon us, to take all that we * haze - Grief is doguers, and vill not cally be imitated. -But let the man, who is the leaft friend to are fed the mean of this nature, contrive fome difconblaze widow uncing her complaint even in this manner, and then let him con der, if there is any forrow like this forwww, wherewith the Lord has fitted ber? o whether there can be any charity Exe that, of taking the child out of ice sotha's bojom, and refcuing her from thefe apprchenfions? Should a heathen, a thenger to our holy religion and the love it teached, fhould he, as he journeyed, come to the place where the lay, when be faw, would be not have compaffion on her? Gop forbid a chriftian fhould this day want it! or at any time look upon fuch a diftrofs, and pass by on the other fide. Rather, let him do, as his Saviour taught him, bind up the wounds, and pour comfort into the heart of one, whom the hand of GoD has fo bruifed. Let -- him practise what it is, with Elijah's transport, to say to the afflicted widow, -See, thy son liveth!-liveth by my charity, and the bounty of this hour, to all the purposes which make life defireable, to be made a good man, and a profitable subject: on one hand, to be trained up to fuch a fenfe of his duty, as may fecure him an intereft in the world. to come; and with regard to this world, to be fo brought up in it to a love of honest labour and industry, as all his life long to earn and eat his bread with joy and thankfulness. "Much peace and happiness reft upon "the head and heart of every one who "thus brings children to CHRIST!-May "the bleffing of him that was ready to pe"rish come feasonably upon him!-The "Lord comfort him, when he most wants "it, when he lies fick upon his bed! make "thou, O GOD! all his bed in his fick"nefs; and for what he now fcatters, "give him, then, that peace of thine which paffeth all understanding, and "which nothing in this world can either. « give or take away.' Amen. SERMON VI. Pharifee and Publican in the Temple. I tell T LUKE XVIII. 14. 1ft part. you, this man went down to his house justified HESE rather than the other : words are the judgment which our SAVIOUR has left upon the behaviour and different degrees of merit in the two men, the Pharifee and Publican, whom he reprefents, in the foregoing parable, as going up into the temple to pray; in what manner they difcharged this great and folemn duty, will beft be feen from a confideration of the prayer, which each is faid to have addreffed to GOD upon the occafion. The pharifee, inftead of an act of humiliation in that awful prefence before which he ftood,-with an air of triumph and felf-fufficiency, thanks GOD that he had not made him like others-extor |