of perfectness. We who are ftrong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let every one of us pleafe his neighbour for his good to edification.

8.... Brethren, it a man be overtaken in a fault, ya that are fpiritual refore fuch an one in the fpirit of meeknefs; confidering thy felf, left thou alfo be tempted. Bear ye one another's burdens, and fo fulfil the law of Chrift. And let us not be weary in well-doing; for ia due feafon we fhall reap, if we faint not. As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, efpecially unto them who are of the household of faith.

9....Lall bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil fpeaking, be put away from you, with all malice and be ye kind one to another, tender hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Cbrift's fake hath torgiven you, Be ye therefore followers of God as dear children; and walk in love, as Chrift hath alfo loved us. Warn them that are unruly, comfort the feeble minded, fupport the weak, be pa tient towards all men.

10... Be not forgetful to entertain flrangers. Remember them who are in bonds, as bound with them ; and them that fuffer adverfity, as being yourfelves alfo in the body. Ufe hofpitality one to another, without grudging. As every man hath received the gift, even To minifter the fame one to another, as good flewards of the manifold grace of God.

11....Calefs your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. Let no man go beyond, and defraud his brother: because that the Lord is the avenger of all fuch. Let none of you fuffer as a murderer or a thief, or as an evil doer, or as a bufy-body in other mea's matters: yet if any man foffer as a Chriflian, let him not be afhamed.

12....Lie not one to another: but (peak the truth in love, that ye may grow up into him in all things, who is the head,even Chrift. Let him who ftole, fteal no more; but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him who needeth. If any man provide not for his own, and efpecially for thofe of his own house, he hath denied the taith, and is worse than an infidel.

13.... We should remember the poor. To do good, and to communicate forget not: for with fuch facrifices God is well pleafed. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, fo let him give: not grudgingly, or of neceffity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. Ye ought to fupport the weak; and to remember the words of the Lord Jefus, how he faid, It is more. bleffed to give than to receive.

14... Charge them who are rich in this world, that they be not high. minded, nor truft in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us all things richly to enjoy; that they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to diffribute, willing to communicate, laying up in ftore for themfelves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life. Whofo hath this world's good, and feeth his brother have need, and' fhutteth up his bowels of compaffion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him ?

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15....Owe no man any thing, but to love one anothRender to all their dues; tribute to whom trib

*This caution against running into debt is of a mo. ral as well as a prudential nature: for the embarra. ments of debt have powerful temptations. and frequent. iy lead to falfehood and to the loss of honefly and integrity. A young man that would fupport the ineflima

ute is due, cuflem to whom custom, fear to whom fear, honour to whom honour. Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

16....Let every foul be fubject unto the higher powers, and obey magiftrates. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then be not afraid of the power? Do that which is good, and thou fhalt have praife of the fame: for he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the fword in vain : for he is the minifter of God, a revenger to execute punishment upon him that doeth evil.

17....Wherefore ye muft needs be fubject, not only for fear of punishment, but alfo for confcience fake. For, for this caule pay you tribute also for they are God's minifters, attending continually upon this very thing. Submit yourfelves to every ordinance of man, for the Lord's fake.

18.... We beseech you, brethren, to know them who labour among you, and are ever you in the Lord, and admonish you and to efteem them very highly in love for their work's fake and be at peace among yourfelves. Let him who is taught in the word, communicate unto him that teacheth, in all good things.

19....The elders I exhort; Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the cverfight thereof, not by conftraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being examples to the flock. And when

ble character of truth and honefty, and who duly prizes his own independence, should carefully avoid contracting debts, any further than he has a moral Bertainty of being able to make pun&ual payment.

the chief fhepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.

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20....Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed unWives, fubmit your felves unto your own hufbands, as unto the Lord. For the hufband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church. Therefore as the church is fubje&t unto Christ, fo let the wives be to their own husbands,

21....Hufbands, love your wives, even as Chrift alfo loved the church, and gave him felf for it. So ought men to love their wives, as their own bodies: Whofo loveth his wife, loveth himself. For this caufe fhall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two fhall be one flesh.

22....Children, obey your parents in the Lord; for this is right. Honour thy father and mother (which is the fit commandment with promife) that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayeft live long on the earth. And ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

23.... Servants, be obedient to your masters in fincerity of heart, as unto Chrift: not with eye-fervice, as men-plealers, but as the fervants of Chrif, doing the will of God from the heart: knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doth, the fame he fhall receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.

24....And ye mafters, do the fame thing unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your mafter also is in heaven; neither is there refpe&t of perfons with God. Ye younger, fubmit yourselves unto the elder: yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be cloth. ed with humility.

REMARKS..

Under the head of relative duties it may be proper

to remark, that women are indebted to the Chriftian religion for the refpectable rank in fociety, which their ⚫fex has defervedly obtained. Belore the Chrifhan æra, woman, in every clime, and under every government, was comparatively in a degraded condition.

And the condition of woman is fill degraded, among Mahometans, and all other nations, which are not under the auspices of the Chriftian religion. She is more the object of appetite than affe&tion, and is rather the flave than the focial friend and companion of man.

Jefus Chrift, by prohibiting polygamy, and concubinage, and confining every husband to one woman, elfected a great and happy revolution in focjety, as it respected the commerce between the fexes. And in confequence of this eftablifhment of the Chriftian law. giver, the condition of the female fex is happily improved.

Wherever Chriflianity prevails, fome degree of refpect and deference is yielded to womankind. To frike her is efteemed brutal. Her mind is cultivated, and her company is fought from fentiment. To her is conceded the honour of giving fociety its highest polifh. She is the companion and folace of man; and even the weakness of her fex does but the more endear her to him, as it renders her dependent on his protection.

In this view, fcarcely any thing would be more aftonishing than to find a woman, of real fenfe, liftening not only with patience, but with pleasure, to libertine fcoffs at the Chriflian religion : because such a woman besides manifefting an impious heart, does implicitly confent to the degradation of the whole fex.

For if the powers of hell might prevail to the total abolition of Chriflianity, the indu'gence of polygamy. and concubinage, and a difregard for the facred bond of marriage, would again reduce the whole female fex to the fame abject and fervile flate, from which the Chriftian fyftem has relieved and raised them.