to his fons, and the judgment which was inflicted on him. (1 Sam. ii. chap.) Think of this, ye parents who can patiently endure to fee your children trampling on the laws of God: Think of this, ye who can without reproof or correction, suffer them to lie, to fwear, to profane the Lord's day, or to be guilty of any other fin which God has forbidden in his word. Remember David's indulgence to his fon Adonijah, and how he was punished for it; he raised an infurrection against him in his own kingdom. (1 Kings i. 6.)

But still farther, remember, parents, that if you neglect to inftruct your children in the principles of religion and virtue, God will require their blood at your hands at the last day. How will you be able in that day to look up to God with confidence, or to meet your children, who will then juftly reproach you with your cruel negligence, and charge you with being the authors of their mifery? God grant that chriftian parents may lay these things to heart, fo as to make confcience of training up their young ones in the fear of the Lord.

conclude by addreffing you in the words of Mofes to the people of Ifrael, (Deut. xxx. 19.) "I call heaven and earth to witness this day against you, that I have set before you life " and death, bleffing and curfing: therefore "chufe life, that both thou and thy feed may "live."

FENCING

COMMUNION TABLES.

THE LORD'S SUPPER.

FENCING TABLES.

DISCOURSE I.

THE HE facrament of the Lord's Supper, is not a ceremony of man's invention, but it is an inftitution and appointment of Jefus Chrift the King of Zion, the Head of the Church, to whom all power in heaven and on earth was committed by the Father. It was the will and pleasure of our Lord and Saviour, that his death should be commemorated by his follow ́ers, in fuch a manner as he fhewed them the fame night in which he was betrayed; namely, by giving thanks fuitable to the occafion, breaking bread and delivering it to his difciples, and pouring wine into a cup, defiring them all to drink of it. For this reafon it is, that the table on which the bread and wine