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lmed us to the very neck. — But ye do know, my bretliren, ajidcan testily, that it is likewise very sweet to mc to open the works of Christ in the Gospels, and the words of the Spirit in the EpiEtleSf and any and every part of the tes- timony of Jesus: therefore ye will acquit mo of novelty-hunting, of vain speculation* or of wan- dering from the proper object of my ministry, while 1 thus step out into a wider field to do some sL-rvice to tl»e Protectant church, and warn the Protestant nation, by shewing them the judg- ments which God ever bringeth upon an apostate or lukewarm church. I pray you, therefore, to be faithful, to embrace the truth, and to stand for it against all hazards, to have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, to expose the ■ harlot mother of abominations, to do watch and 1024 THE DitTiKO VT OF THX EUPHSATM- irard over the precious goods of the dty of our God; and to stand looking out for the Judge who cometh, and to observe the fearful heralds of his direful approach ; and to encourage one another because our redemption draweth nigh. Thus do, my beloved, and the Judge, the righte- ous Judge, shall give you a crown of glory in tho day of his spearing. 1025 DISCOURSE V. sii£ CURSE AS rr uahi deg&aded uan xjnua'Cii EXC£>SS OF DODIi-Y LABUt'R, AKD lUK UElJMUiAKGE mOM niE SAME. Qzs. tii. n !»• vlW wi/o jlc/df/i Ar said, Bccaasc thou hast htarkaicd tmto the voict of thy xcifi, ami hast eaten of tht (rte of which I copwtanJ^J thee, sai/in^. Thou fhalt noi ad (^ it ; curscJ is tkt grcu/td for thy sake : in sarrow ^heit thm eat of ii ail the days of thy life. Thorns itUo and thistks ikatl it hrirtg forth to thix ; mid tliou shall t^ai the herb oflhejiild, fn the sweat rf thy face sh alt Uiou tint hrmd^ tiU thou return mito the ground: far out of it wttat tUm taken: for duitt thou art, and unto dust tthaU thou return. Short uad »cauly a& js the ^count of the con- dition of our first {larents berorethey (raosgresfiCd the commandnii^nt of Gf>d, it funiiHlieth nialerialA for comprehending in some sort the nftture of their beiDg. Of the creation of the animals it is writ- teD* " Let the earth bring thorn forth; let the waters bring them fortli." But of man it is »aid» " Let us make man in our image, after our like- 1026 THE CUHSft A» TO flODILY LABOUR. [Di$. nefl&-" And, in another place, it is writteo ottbe animals, '* Oui of the ground the Lord God To cd every beast of the fields and evor>' fowl of fiir ; " but of man it is written, " T