monies; let us be the more careful to cultivate inward religion. We have thrown off a multitude of superstitious practices, which were called good works: let us the more abound in all moral virtues, these being unquestionably such. Thus our lives will justify and recommend the Reformation; and we shall "adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things," Tit. ii. 10.
SERMON VI.
PREACHED BEFORE HIS GRACE CHARLES, DUKE OF RICHMOND, PRESIDENT, AND THE GOVERNORS OF THE LONDON INFIRMARY,
On Thursday, March 31, 1748.
As we owe our being, and all our faculties, and the very opportunities of exerting them, to Almighty God, and are plainly his, and not our own, we are admonished, even though we should "have done all those things which are commanded us, to say. We are unprofitable servants," Luke xvii. 10; and with much deeper humility must we make this acknowledgment when we consider in how "many things we have all offended," James iii. 2. But still the behaviour of such creatures as men, highly criminal in some respects, may yet in others be such as to render them the
