haps they were decent in their manners, and orderly in their conduct, as any of us; but a relaxation of principle, and the neglect of their religious duties, have brought them to this pass. May God enlighten their eyes that they fleep not in death.

CERTAIN it is our life in this world is but a journey. From the cradle to the grave, we have feveral ftages to pass through, but the falvation of our fouls, is the end of all the divine leadings, the object which God's Providence has ever in view, in all his moft righteous difpenfations. Though with the Patriarchs we come not to worship at Beer-fheba; still let us acknowledge the God of Abraham, Ifaac, and Jacob, to be our covenant God. And though we facrifice not

from our flocks or herds; let us offer unto God the more acceptable facrifices of the heart; the facrifices of obedience, of faith, of charity: Then fhall we receive an answer of peace, though not in the visions of the night, yet in the more certain word of God, the fcriptures of truth, where God fpeaks as exprefsly to us, as to the Patriarch of old where he bids us not fear__where he affures us of his prefence and protection where he declares Himfelf the Refurrection and the Life, and that whofoever believeth in him fhall never die. This was he that comforted feeble Jacob, that encouraged him to go down into Egypt, that promised to go down with him there, that he would alfo furely bring him up again, and that Joseph,

his favourite fon, fhould put his hand

upon his eyes.

This God is our God for ever and ever, he will be our guide, even unto death: Amen.

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SERMON X.

JACOB IN EGYPT.

GENESIS, xlvi. 5, 6, 7.

And Jacob rofe up from Beer-fheba: And the fons of Ifrael carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, in the waggons which Pharaoh had fent to carry them. And they took their cattle, and their goods which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob with all his feed with him. His fons and his fons fons with him, his daughters and his fons daughters, and all his feed brought he with him into Egypt.

THERE is a richness and fertility in the ftyle of the Sacred Book, which under a vail of the plaineft diction, contains the moft fublime and heavenly truths. Herein facred history differs from all other hiftory: Pro