hem with your lives, by your spotless integrity, by keeping yourselves void of offence towards God, and man: If revenge prompts you to break through human laws, and makes you prodigal of life, forgive į for the love of your parents. If indolence and sloth avert you from honorable, competition, rouse yourself, that the praises [1 which men bestow upon you, may warm the hearts of your parents;whenever you are about to do any thing that is wrong, remember there is a father, and a mother, whose hearts you will tear with anguish have pity upon them, and bear them in mind in all you do ; do; if you are dishonorable, they cannot be honoured; if you are in wretchedness, they cannot rejoice;-they will burn o with your glory; they will blush with yourda shame; they have smiled upon your cradle, they will weep on your tomb. In fine, to fulfil this great duty is an act of religion, as it is one of the commandments of Almighty God. It is a duty, most creditable to the heart of him who fulfils sat en to a it, because it is an obscure duty, and one of m long continuance; yet it is base to say, lod ΡΟΠΟΛ have forgotten the wants, and miseries, of my childhood, and, because I am now strong, I will not remember that I was ever weak;-it is cruel to laugh at that wisdom, in its decay, which has guided us in its perfection;-though his tongue faulter, and though he is bowed down, he is still thy father;-forsake him not, but comfort him as he has comforted thee; and if thy days are long in the land; at the latest, and the last of those days, thou shalt feel that peace which they only can feel who honor the authors of their being, and obey the commandments of their God. SERMON X. PSALM CXII. VERSE VIII, His heart is established, he shall not be afraid. THE Psalmist, in stating the happiness of a righteous man, comes, at last, to that essential part of it, the government of the heart; and, impressed with the security which such a state of thoughts, and feelings, must afford, says, his heart is established, he shall not be afraid. The Psalmist means, I should suppose, by this establishment of heart, an habitual regulation of passions, opinions, and imagination;-a suspicious examination, not of A |