fervors of Christian charity; he knows no party but the party of his crucified Redeemer; no fashion which the folly of this world prescribes to him; a world, the very wisdom of which he knows is but foolishness with his God.

Such is the man who endeavours to please God; such the character which that God declares to be well-pleasing in his sight. To which that we may all with true Christian earnestness aspire, God of his infinite mercy grant through Jesus Christ our Lord.

GOD,

THE

UNIVERSAL AND EQUAL FATHER

OF ALL

MANKIND.

The following is the only SERMON in this Volume which has been previously published: It was occasionally preached in York Cathedral, on Sunday the 27th of January, 1788, to promote a Petition to Parliament, then under signature, for the Abolition of the AFRICAN SLAVE-TRADE; and was printed at the request of Sir William Milner, Bart. then Lord Mayor, and of the Gentlemen of the Corporation of the City of York, to whom it was inscribed.

SERMON XIV.

Acts xvii. 28.

FOR WE ALSO ARE HIS OFFSPRING. *

THIS quotation from a Greek, and consequently a heathen Poet, the eloquent Apostle of the Gentiles condescended to use, when he was endeavouring to convert the greatest masters of human wisdom, from the greatest proof of human folly, the worship of idols; when he was asserting the unity of that supreme first cause, which they so little understood, as to erect an altar to him under the appellation of the unknown God. This universal source of life, breath, and all created beings, he declares to them, " made of one blood, all men to dwell on the face ❝of the earth,” and determined, by his divine Prescience, both the times of their existence, and the bounds of their habitation.

Of these two fundamental truths, upon which not only natural but revealed religion is founded, the existence of a first cause, and the deduction thence of all created * Τὲ γὰρ καὶ γένος ἔσμεν. ARATUS.