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Daughters of Jerufalem, weep not for me,
but weep for yourselves and for your child-
ren.
pag. I
A day of trouble, rebuke and blafphemy,
that derived infamy, mifery and guilt
upon this ration.
The text taken from one of the leffons,
which, according to the courfe of the
Liturgy, was read to the king juft be-
for his martyrdom, and is now ap-
pointed to be read on the day of its
commemoration.
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2.
The
The laft moments of his life, in imitation of our blessed Saviour's, were employ- ed in awakening a drowfy nation to a fense of its guilt, and a dread of its im- pending punishment.
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1. The doctrines this day fuggefts to us,
are, That we mifplace our grief if we
employ it in bewailing and lamenting
our martyred fovereign, 3, 4
The day on which the ancient martyrs
were crowned, folemnized with joy like
their birth-days.
In like manner we ought to magnify the
Igrace of God which infpired our fove-
reign with fuch virtues, as made him
fhine with greater luftre in the depth of
his fufferings, than he did in his most
flourishing circcumftances,
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And raised him in his lowelt ftate as far a-
1boye the moft profperous princes, as they
themfelves feem rafed above the rest of
mankind.
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By which he has given an inftance to pro-
fane men, of the power of those reli-
gious principles, which could fupport
him under all the indignities hat befel
whose breast he fucked those principles.
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Every confideration that heightens his
virtue, enhances the guilt of the in-
ftruments of his ruin.
II. Nations, as nations, are liable to guilt,
and confequently to punishment.
The reason why this appears clearer from
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tht Old Teftament than the new. ΤΟ
How this nation is concerned in the guilt
of the martyrdom.
The inflaming circumftances of its guilt.
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Which was punished, in fome measure,
by its own neceffary confequences. 13
Thefe not put to an end at the restoration.
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Nor ever can, be, while the doctrines that
paved the way to this wickednefs are
embraced and cherished.
A deprecation of God's judgments,
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SER-
SERMON. II.
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The wicked Lives of Chriftians no ar
gument against the truth of Chrif
tianity.
I TIM. vi. i.
That the name of God and his doctrine be not
blafphemed.
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Though the purity of the Chriftian mo
rality is a proof of its divine original, yet
the wicked lives of Chriftians are urged
as an objection against it.
1. An enquiry into the grounds of this objecton: Where it may be obferved,
That bad as men are under the Chriftian
difpenfation, they would have been
worfe without it.
:
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The vices we obferve among Chriftians
ftrike the imagination more ftrongly by
reafon of their nearness.
And because they are attended wi:h a
deeper guilt.
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The virtues of a good Christian less known,
because practifed with a view only to
another world.