thirsty, give him water to drink; For SER M. thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, II. and the Lord fhall reward Thee: And from the other paffages of Scripture, in which the very fame phrafe is ufed; Pf. cxl. 10; Let burning coals fall upon them; And Is. xlvii. 14; (according to the Verfion of the lxx,) They shall be as stubble, the Fire hall burn them; for thou haft coals of fire to heap upon them: And 2 Efdr. 16. 53; Let not the Sinner fay that he hath not finned; for God shall burn coals of fire upon His head, who faith before the Lord God and his glory, I have not finned. BUT, to draw towards a conclufion. The last and mofl powerful Motive to the Practice of the Duty before us, is the Argument urged in the Text; That God expects and requires it of us in the Conditions of the Gospel, that we should forgive one another, even as He for Chrift's fake, has forgiven Us. The Reasonablenefs of the condition, is well expreffed by the Author of the book of Ecclus. ch. xxviii. I; He that revengeth, shall find vengeance from the Lord, and he will furely SER M. furely keep his Sins in remembrance. ForII. give thy neighbour the hurt that he has done thee; fo fhall Thy Sins afo be forgiven when thou prayeft. One man beareth Hatred against another, and doth be feek pardon from the Lord? He fheweth no mercy to a Man which is like himself; and doth be ask forgiveness of his Own Sins? What is bere argued as equitable in the nature of the Thing, is by the Apoftle declared to be the Condition of the Gofpel: Jam. ii. 13; He fhall have judgment without mercy, that hath skewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against Judgment. Our Lord himself in That Prayer which he taught his Disciples, commanded them to fay; Forgive Us Our Trefpaffes, in like manner as we forgive them that trefpafs against Us; And at the conclufion of the Prayer, he enlarges upon the reajon of that Petition, For (fays he) if ye forgive men Their Trespasses, your heavenly Father will alfo forgive you. But if ye forgive not men their Trefpaffes, neither will your Father forgive your Trespasses. The fame thing he inculcates in the parable of the King, who having forgiven a Servant ten thoufand Talents, Talents, revoked the Favour again, upon SER M. That Servant's refufing to forgive his II. fellow-fervant one hundred pence, Matt. xviii. 33; Shouldft not thou also have had compassion on thy fellow-fervant, even as 1 had pity on thee? Nay, fo far does our Saviour carry this matter, as to advise, Matt. v. 23; If thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there remembereft that thy Brother bath ought against thee; Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way, first be reconciled to thy Brother, and then come and offer thy gift. SERMON SERMON III. Of the Nature and End of the MAR. ii. 27. And be faid unto them, The Sabbath was made for Man, and not Man for the Sabbath. I T is very remarkable in the SER M. whole History of our Saviour, III. that in all cafes where neither any natural neceffity nor moral obligation intervened to the contrary, there he was conftantly most exact and nice, in fulfilling every particular even of the ceremonial Law. Thus when he came to John the Baptift; though, ha ving |