on and vices respectively rife and fall, and will almost neceffarily be connected. Tell me therefore of a compaffionate man, you reprefent to me a man of a thousand other good qualities whom I can depend whom I may fafely truft with my wife - my children, my fortune and reputation. 'Tis for this, as the apoftle argues from the fame principle that he will not commit adultery that he will not kill that he will not steal that he will not bear falfe witnefs. That is, the forrows which are stirred up in mens hearts by fuch trefpaffes are fo tenderly felt by a compaffionate man, that it is not in his power or his nature to commit them. So that well might he conclude, that charity, by which he means, the love to to your neighbour, was the end of the commandment, and that whofoever fulfilled it, had fulfilled the law. Now to GOD, &c. Amen. SER |