If ye then be rifen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ fit- teth at the right hand of God. Set your Preached in Magdalen College Chapel, Oxford, March 1, 1786. them, Verily, I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of And bebold they brought to him a man fick of the palsy, lying on a bed ; and Jefus, seeing their faith, said unto the sick of The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than Preached before the University of Oxford, DISCOURSE XVI. The Woman taken in Adultery. John viii. 7. He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at ber 347. DISCOURSE XVII. On the Purification. LUKE ii. 22. And when the days of her purification, ac cording to the Law of Mofes, were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord 367 DISCOURSE I. THE DUTY OF TAKING NO THOUGHT FOR THE MORROW. MATTHEW VI. 34. Take therefore no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itSelf ; fufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. W I. HAT? Take no thought, no DISC. thought at all for the morrow ? Attend only to the day that is passing over us, and make no provision for the future? Are we not to look forward ; to suppose a continuation of life, and a want of the means which are necessary to support it? Should we fit still, with our arms folded, and expect that Providence will supply us with those means, without using our own endea VOL. III. B |