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nor could they endure that threat, "if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned."

and so terrible was the appearance, that Moses cry'd out, "I tremble with the fright."

so that we may boldly say, " the Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me."

for the mind is better improv'd by the gospel-dispensation, than by the distinctions about meats, in which some have been so uselesly vers'd.

the sun is up and darts its rays, the grass is wither'd, its flowers droop, and all their beautiful appearance vanishes away. just so the rich man fades with all his projects.

just so faith, if it be not operative, is intirely lifeless.

as the body then without the soul is a meer carcase, so faith without its effects is lifeless.

so the tongue is but a small part of the body, yet how grand are its pretensions. a spark of fire! what quantities of timber will it blow into a flame?

we pronounce those happy, who have so endur'd. you have heard of the constancy of Job, you know with what success he was crown'd by the Lord, who is all mercy and compassion.

you your selves are as so many living stones, you are the edifice, the spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, agreeable to God by Jesus Christ.

but in the internal qualities of the mind, in that purity, in that mild and dispassionate temper, which is so acceptable to the divine being.

so that for the future he does not pass the rest of this life in gratifying his sensual passions, but in conformity to the divine precepts.

Wherefore be the more diligent, my brethren, to secure your vocation and election by your virtuous actions, for by so doing, you will never relapse:

However, I shall inculcate these things so as to make you continually remember them, even after my departure.

But as for these, they have no more reason than brute beasts that are naturally made for hunting, and slaughter: so these who calumniate what they do not understand, shall receive the reward of their iniquity by perishing in their own corruption.

Do you then, my dear brethren, being thus forewarn'd, take care not to be seduc'd by those prophane impostors, and so lose the reward of your constancy.

for what the world is so full of, sensuality, avarice, and pride, is not deriv'd from the creator, but is the offspring of a vicious world.

who is so great an impostor as he, who denies that Jesus is the Christ? he is antichrist, that denies the father and the son.

beloved, if God so loved us, we ought to love one another.

the divine love to us will be in the highest degree, if our condition in this world be the same as was that of Christ Jesus; so that we may appear with confidence in the day of judgment.