private advantage or profit, we should be "like those who fay-let us do evil, "that good may come." Of whom the Holy Scriptures declare the dreadful end, viz. " whofe damnation is juft!".

No community, therefore, can deferve the name of a Chriftian Community, if it is not wholly Chriftian in its councils, and public measures" for whosoever shall "keep the whole law, and yet offend in "one point, he is guilty of all." (James ii. 10.)

"He that committeth fin," (fays the Apoftle John) is of the Devil.”—“ In "this the children of God are manifeft, "and the children of the devil; whofoever doth not RIGHTEOUSNESS, is

not of God, neither he that loveth "not his brother." (1 John iii. 8. 10.) "Wherefore by their fruits ye fhall "know them." (Matthew vii. 10.) The Apoftle

Apostle Paul, ftrongly infifted on this uniformity of Chriftian behaviour."Only let your converfation" (said he) "be as it becometh the Gospel of Christ." (Phil. i. 27.). The word (ITEVEDE) rendered "let your converfation,”-includes all public conferences for the polity or political arrangement of any community, the word polity itself being derived from that very word. "For "the wrath of God" (faid he, in another Epistle) " is revealed from Heaven

against ALL UNGODLINESS and UN"RIGHTEOUSNESS of thofe who hold "the truth in UNRIGHTEOUSNESS." (Rom. i. 8.) The neceffity, therefore, of doing right, or righteousness, fuperfedes every other neceffity; for all ungodliness and unrighteoufness is abfolutely prohibited without the leaft room for admitting a poffible exception!-The neceffity even of faving life is not fufficient to excuse the adoption of an unjuft measure, becaufe

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cause we thereby caft off the service of our Lord, the King of Righteousness, and inevitably, by iniquity, become the fervants (or flaves) of the devil. For our Lord himself faid---" I say unto you, my friends, be not afraid of them that "kill the body, and after that have no "more that they can do. "forwarn you" (faid he) "fhall fear; fear him which after he

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hath killed, hath power to caft into "Hell; yea I fay unto you, fear him.” And then he clearly revealed that all things are maintained and directed by the especial Providence of God, even in the most minute circumstances of animal

life! "Are not five fparrows" (faid he)

fold for two farthings, and not one of "them is forgotten before God? But " even the very hairs of your head are "all numbered. Fear not therefore:

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❝rows. Alfo I fay unto you, whofo"ever shall confefs me before men, him "fhall the Son of Man also confess be"fore the Angels of God: but he that "denieth me before men," (and all promoters of any unrighteous counsel, may too truly be faid to deny him) "fhall be "denied before the Angels of God." Luke xii. 4. to 9. Let no man" (therefore) go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter; becaufe that "the Lord is the avenger of all fuch, as "we also have forewarned you and " teftified. For God hath not called us "to uncleanness, but unto holiness. He "therefore that defpifeth, despiseth not "man, but God, who hath alfo given "unto us his HOLY SPIRIT." (1 Theff. iv. 6. to 8.) And for the continual renewal of that most excellent and fupreme gift of the HOLY SPIRIT to guide and direct all our counfels, let us withpenitent hearts and moft fincere attention,

tention, ask that we may have, and seek that we may find, as Christ himself hath commanded, encouraging us by an abfo lute promife of fuccefs; fo that if we fail, the fault must be our own, in asking amifs!

Dear Friends and Brethren,

"Whatsoever ye fhall do in word or "deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jefus, giving thanks to God, even "the Father by him." (Coloff. iii. 17.)

N. B. When there is not time for fo long an exbortation, the following fentence alone will be a proper introduction to the prayers, viz.

"Except the Lord build the "house, they labour but in vain that " are the builders of it in it; ex"cept the Lord keep the city, the "watchman waketh but in vain." (Pfal. cxxvii.)

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