dungeons, ready to expire under their wounds: could we croud into the prospect the facking and plundering of cities, the fpringing of mines, the explosion of artillery, and all the dreadful apparatus of death: could all this terrible affemblage of horrid fpectacles be arranged in diftinct order, and in lively colours before our eyes; is it poffible that a human creature could view thefe Would you

things without a tear? Would not be ready to faint at the frightful vifion? And would not every one cry out with David, "Let us fall &c."

now,

To conclude therefore, let us cultivate and exercife a direct contrary temper of mind : ---- - let us hate no man; let us perfecute no man ;---

let

let us love even our enemies: - let us do good for evil:----let us pray for them that despitefully use us, and perfecute us :---let us forgive and we fhall be forgiven :----let us in love and charity aim at perfection, even as our father which is in heaven is perfect: fo fhall we be 'admitted into that blessed state, where all tears fhall be wiped from our eyes, and all our fufferings shall be recompenfed with inconceivable happiness, and eternal glory.

SERMON

III.

1 SAM. ii. 23, 24, 25.

And he faid unto them, Why do ye fuch things? for I hear of your evil dealings by all this people.

Nay, my fons; for it is no good report that I hear; ye make the Lord's people to tranfgrefs.

If one man fin against another, the judge fhall judge him: but if a man fin against the Lord, who fhall intreat for him?

THE

HE hiftory of Eli and his family, though so short as to take up only a small part of the four first chapters of this first book of Sa

muel,

muel, is fo full of interesting circumftances, and, notwithstanding the plainness and fimplicity of the narration, is so affecting, that it cannot fail of making an impreffion upon every one who hears or reads it.

It is my intention to make fuch remarks, and draw fuch conclufions. from this story as may be suitable to the present occasion,

Hophni and Phinehas, the fons of Eli, were men of flrong passions ; they were avaritious and libidinous ; they violently seized the peoples' of ferings and converted them to their own gluttony, and lay with the women that affembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. By these wicked practices the peo

ple