common Obligations and Duties of Life; thefe are Extremes alike to be avoided. The one argues a brutish Mind; the other a mifguided and overheated Zeal. This last is a Fault that Men do not often want to be told of, but fometimes they do; and when they do, they should be put in mind of what St. Paul fays, 1 Cor. vii. 24. Brethren, let every Man wherein he is called therein abide, with God. We may be with God, you fee, and in our Callings too; yea, if we abide not in our Callings we cannot ferve God * as we ought to ferve him. We may pray, and faft, and do many other fuch like Things; but this will not be ferving God, if we neglect the Duties of our Callings. The Station in which every Man is placed by the Providence of God, fhews him his Duty as plainly as any written Law can do; and when religious Duties fall in with these, and help them forward, they are acceptable to God. But what think you? If a Man should refuse to maintain his aged and indigent Parents; would it be a Juftification to fay, that he gives away his Money in Charity? Our Saviour hath decided this Point to our Hands, and tells us plainly, it is making the Word of God of none Effect, Mark vii. 15. It would

"He only will adorn the Gofpel of our Lord Jefus Chrift in all Things, who is careful to perform all the Civil Offices "of Life, whether Servant, Mafter, or Miftrefs. This is the "Morality which I preach." Whitefield's Journal continued, p. 91. I hope his Followers will mind this, and that He will confider how this agrees with his Practice, and with his Treatment of the Minifter of St. Michael's, and the Gentlemen of Gloucefter, of whom he gives the following Account, p. 74." The Minifter "of St. Michael's was pleased to lend me his Church Yesterday "and To-day; but fome wealthy Demetrius's being offended at the "Greatness of the Congregations, and alledging" (upon EXPERIENCE, no doubt)" that it kept People from their Bufinefs, he "was influenced by fome of them to deny the Ufe of his Pulpit 66 any more on a Week-day." Upon which he remarks—“ Alas! "what an Enmity there is in the natural Man against the Succefs "of the Gospel! How fond are they of Pharaob's Objection, Ye "are idle, ye are idle; therefore ye fay, Let us go worship the "Lord."-Ex ore tuo.

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be the fame Cafe if a Servant fhould neglect to do his Mafter's Bufinefs, or the Hufband or Wife to take Care of their Families, upon whatfoever religious Pretence it is done: For God cannot difannul the eternal Laws of his own Government; and Religion is not Religion, but Folly, or fomething worse, when it is made ufe of as a Handle to fuch Practices as these.

May God grant unto us all the Spirit of a found Mind, that having ferved him faithfully in this Life, we may of him be finally rewarded; for the Sake of Jefus Chrift.

To whom, with the Father and the Holy Ghost, be all Honour and Glory, now and for evermore.

Amen.

FINI S.

OF SUCH AS HAVE NOT WELL CONSIDERED THIS HOLY ORDINANCE;

WITH

TO WHICH IS ANNEXED

THE OFFICE OF THE

HOLY COMMUNION.

PROPER

HELPS AND DIRECTIONS FOR

JOINING IN EVERY PART THEREOF WITH UNDERSTANDING AND BENEFIT.

BY THE LATE RIGHT REVEREND FATHER IN GOD, THOMAS LORD BISHOP OF SODOR AND MAN.

PRINTED FOR F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON, Booksellers to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, No. 62, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD; By Law and Gilbert, St. John's Square, Clerkenwell. 1812.

TO OUR UNKNOWN

BENEFACTRESS.

MADAM,

SINCE

we are not permitted to know You, but only by your good Works, you cannot be offended by this public Acknowledgment of the great Good You have done, and of the good Example You have given in an Age abandoned to all the profane and idle Ways of squandering Estates and Riches, without the least Dread of an Account to be given for such Talents received and abused.

* A certain unknown PERSON, who within these few Years had laid out very considerable Sums of Money in purchasing Bibles and other Books of Devotion and Piety, for the Use of the People committed to the Care of the Author of these Papers.