you your Masters don't begin with you, and admonish you of your Duty, take Courage to speak to them, and afk their Leave, where that may be neceffary. Don't say you are asham'd: Confider whether you have not more Boldness in leffer Matters, and whether it does not become to have more Courage and Resolution where your greatest Intereft is concerned? Be humble, and modeft, and obliging, and depend upon it you will give no Offence by fuch a Freedom as this. But I must beg Leave to add a Word to the Masters themselves: And I cannot but wifh, that even those who appear to regard their Duty in other Points, would take this Matter into their ferious Confideration. I need not tell them, that every Master of a Family must be in fome Meafure answerable for the religious Behaviour of his Family: He is to watch over and inftruct, and admonish, and reprove his Children and Servants: He is to worship God with them in his Family, and to allow and require them to worfhip God alfo in fecret by themselves, and in the publick Congregation, and particularly at the Lord's Table. If Masters difcharg'd their Duty faithfully in taking this Care of their Servants, is leaft inconvenient to his earthly one : So when his Attendance is indifpenfibly required at home, during the ufual Time of Divine Service, he may, in this great Town, have an Opportunity to receive the Sacrament early on the Sunday Morning at some or other of the Churches where it is adminifter'd; as at the Chapel Royal at St James's, St James's Church, Whiteball Chapel; or in the City, at St Anne's Alderfgate, St Mary le Bow, or St Michael's Crooked-Lane.-And what I fay here of the Sacrament, may be equally applied to the publick Prayers and Sermons; fince in this Town we have them at different Churches, before the ufual Hour in the Morning, and after that in the Evening. I perfuade myself we fhould not hear fo many Complaints of their Misbehaviour. But if they who fhould inftruct and direct them better, neglect their Charge; much more if they become Examples of Lewdnefs and Profaneness; what Wonder is it if fuch uninftructed uncultivated Souls are easily captivated, and led away with divers Lufts, to commit Iniquity with Greedinefs? One would think that Masters, for their own Interest and Security, if they look'd no farther, fhould take a little more care of their Servants: And the fhocking Instances we have had of Robbery and Murder, committed by Servants, fhould awaken Masters to confider the Neceffity of inftilling fome good Principles into their Servants, and to endeavour, all the Ways they are able, to plant the Fear of God in their Hearts, and a firm Belief of a Judgment to come, which may engage them to refrain from every evil Way +, and to keep a Confcience void of Offence towards God and towards Man ||‡ Thofe Masters and Miftreffes who have any Senfe of Religion themselves, muft especially fee the Neceffity of fuch a Conduct; and will certainly be pleased to encourage and improve all the good Inclinations they can discover in their Servants : And they will excufe me, if I intreat and befeech them to confider the Bashfulness and Backwardness of Servants in these Matters, and to condefcend to be their Monitors, and to convince and perfuade them to discharge their Duty therein as they 2 Tim. iii, 6. || Eph. iv, 19. Particularly one a very few Years ago, and another but of Yefterday, in this Town. + Pfal. cxix, 101. Acts xxiv, 16. E 3 ought As to the first; there is a very visible Connexion betwixt the Eucharift, and the Practice of every Chriftian Duty; for in meditating upon Jefus Chrift, we meditate upon the most exceljent Perfon that ever was, in whom every Grace and Virtue that can adorn the Mind and Life of Man fhone with the moft unfullied Luftre t. The greateft Heroes who fhine in Hiftory,* even the moft illuftrious Saints whofe Memory is juftly had in Honour, fhewed that they were Men of like Paffions with us †, and their best Actions favoured always of the Weakness and Infirmity of human Nature; but in Jefus Chrift we fee Nothing but the moft confummate Holinefs, without the leaft Imperfection: Surely then a fedate, folemn Commemoration || of this bright See Dr Walter Jones's Sermons, p. 59. * It is amazing to think that human Reafon fhould fo far degenerate, as to inftitute Feafts and Sacrifices in Honour to Heroes and Gods, which were hardly famous for any Thing but infamous Actions; whereby, instead of encouraging Virtue, they contributed much to establish and authorize Vice, being led to the Imitation of those vicious Deities to whom they paid their Worship.. If the Philofophers thought more rationally, they took Care to hide the Refult of their Enquiries from the Vulgar, who yet were equally concerned to be set right in a Matter of the most extraordinary Importance. The Words of St Aufin to this Purpose are remarkable : "Nihil Homines tam infociabiles reddit Vitæ Perverfitate, "quàm illorum Deorum Imitatio, quales defcribuntur & "commendantur Litteris eorum. Denique illi doctiffimi "Viri qui Rempublicam, Civitatemque terrenam qualis "eis effe debere videbatur, magis domefticis Difputationi"bus requirebant vel etiam defcribebant, quam publicis "Actionibus inftituebant atque formabant, egregios atque "laudabiles, quos putabant Homines potiùs, quam Deos "fuos imitando proponebant erudiendæ Indoli Juventutis.” Auguftin. Epift. ccii, p. 172. Ed. Parif. 1555. Acts xiv, 15. See Broughton's Anfw. to Tindal, p. 16. Exemplar Exemplar of all moral and divine Virtues, of this great Preacher of Righteousness,* cannot but have a mighty Influence to advance that univerfal Holinefs which he taught, and fo effectually recommended by his own Practice. For, can we fee, as we do in this holy Ordinance, the Breadth, and Length, and Depth, and Height of the Love of Chrift‡, which induced him to give himself a Ranfom for all without being filled with the most affectionate Gratitude for that unconceivable Love, without refolving to live no longer to ourselves, but to him who has done thefe great Things for us, whereof we rejoice; and to fay with St Paul, I am crucified with Chrift, nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Chrift liveth in me; and the Life which I now live in the Fleft, I live by the Faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me?----In this Sacrament we fee the Lord of Glory humbling himself, and taking on him the Form of a Servant and can we, notwithstanding this great Pattern of Humility, cherish any Thoughts of Pride or Vanity, which are fo unfuitable to a frail Creature, to a moft miferable Sinner §? Can we behold the furprising Charity of our bleffed Saviour, without being enlarged in our Bowels || towards his poor Members; without renouncing all Hatred, Malice, and Revenge; without refolving to love, from henceforth, the whole Race of Mankind, even our bittereft Enemies? 2 Pet. ii, 5. Eph. iii, 18. | 1 Tim. ii, 6. tal ii, 20. Phil. ii, 7, 8. § See Serm. de Werenfels, p. 110% 2 Cor. vi, 12, 13. Can we fee Innocence itself fuffer the bitterest Torments with fo much Patience and Refignation, without a firm Resolution to bear without murmuring thofe Misfortunes and Disappointments which God is pleased to send us, and which fall fhort of what we have richly deferved? Can we think on the horrible Tor ments which our Sins have caufed to the Son of God, without a great Abhorrence against all Sin? Can we call to mind that Chrift died for our Sins once, that thro' Faith, Repentance, and Newness of Life, we might not die for ever, without refolving to do all in our Power to live foberly, righteously, and godly in this prefent World; without ufing all our Endeavours to perform every Condition on which this mighty Bleffing is fufpended ‡? In fhort, there is no *Rom. vi, 10. + Tit. ii, 12. Part That is, in my Apprehenfion, the true State of Christian Jotification. There has been of late Years revived several Niceties upon this Subject, which feem to me to be but a Difpute about Words. The Advocates for these revived Notions pretend, that Faith is the only Condition of Juftification; but then, after all their Windings and Turnings, they are at laft forced to allow that it must be fuch a Faith as is productive of good Works. Now whether Faith be taken in the complex View in which St Paul uses the Word in his Epiftles, as comprehending therein what we are to believe and prac tice; or whether we divide the Idea, as St James has done, into Belief and Obedience, it comes to the fame Thing; fince the Merits of Chrift are on all Sides allowed to be the meritorious Caufe of our Salvation, and the Belief and Obedience to the Precepts of the Gospel, the indifpenfible Qualifications required. But for my Part, I am against using the Expreffion of being juftified by Faith only, not because it is uncapable of a found Senfe, but because common People are apt to overlook the neceffary Diftinctions; and because it may be, and has actually been, greatly abufed by thofe who would gladly feparate the Belief of the Gofpel from that |