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worldly condition is beft for me: my "blindness forbids me to ask for any

thing, but falvation. Bleffed GOD! "whatever tends moft to this great end, "be that my portion! Be it poverty, " or riches, honour or dishonour, health "or disease, life or death, the choice "be thine; and mine the wisdom to "improve under thy difpenfations!"

FAITH teaches us to pray and act in fuch a fpirit. It tends, therefore, when properly understood, to make us the most useful citizens of this world, while it aims at a heavenly inheritance. GOD give us all grace fo to pass through things temporal, that we finally we finally lofe not the things eternal!

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SERMON XI.

Of Christian Industry.

SERMON XI.

JOHN, vi. 27.

LABOUR NOT FOR THE MEAT, WHICH PERISHETH, BUT FOR THAT MEAT WHICH ENDURETH UNTO EVERLASTING LIFE, WHICH THE SOn of MAN SHALL GIVE UNTO YOU,

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HRISTIANITY gives us the truest notion of independence. It allows fuch a proportion of worldly care, as the neceffities of our prefent being require; but fixes our principal attention, where it ought to be, upon the durable interests of our future being.

EXTERNAL things are comparatively but a mean concern. They are fome

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