and vet I mean the we may be al han we have inSmack that Spring could only to has received of the fact is The Sontories of Mitrent wa & grafite to keep be ཀེ སསྶ fore-hand with the man he has hurt, and not only to hate him for the evil he expects in return, but even to pursue him down, and put it out of his power to make reprisals. The bafeness of this is fuch, that it is fufficient to make the fame obfervation, which was made upon the crime of parricide amongst the Grecians :-it was fo black,- their legiflators did not fuppose it could be committed, and therefore made no law to punish it. SERMON XIII. Duty of fetting Bounds to our 2 KINGS IV. 13. And he faid unto him, Say now unto her, Behold, thou haft been careful for us with all this care;-what is to be done for thee?-wouldst thou be spoken for to the king, or the captain of the hoft?-And fhe anfwered, I dwell among mine own people. TH HE firft part of the text is the words which the prophet Elifha puts into the mouth of his fervant Gehazi, as a meffage of thanks to the woman of Shunem for her great kindnefs and hofpitality, of which, after the acknowledgment of his juft fenfe, which Gehazi is bid to deliver in the words"Behold, thou haft been careful for us with all this care;"-he directs him to enquire in what manner he may best make a return in difcharge of the obli gation,-" What fhall be done for thee? Would thou be fpoken for to the king, or the captain of the hoft?" The last part of the text is the Shunamite's anfver, which implies a refufal of the honour or advantage which the prophet intended to bring upon her by fuch an application, which the indirectly expreses in her contentment and fatisfaction, with what he enjoyed in her prefent ftation; "I dwell among mine own people." This inftance of felf-denial in the Shunamite, is but properly the introduction to her ftory, and gives rife to that long and very pathetic tranfaction, which follows in the fupernatural grant of a child, which God had many years denied her.-The affecting lofs of him as foon as he was grown up-and his restoration to life by Elifha, after he had been fome time dead; the whole of which, though extremely interefting, and forming fuch incidents as would afford fufficient matter for inftruction, yet, as it will not fall within the intention of this difcourfe, I fhall beg leave at this |