but by inwardly cleanfing, redeeming, and purifying your corrupt natures, from every beftial as well as diabolical impurity. It is in this procefs alone, that you can know, and be known by your SAVIOUR: and unless you enter upon this, and feek in good earnest to be intimately acquainted with him, thus revealing himself in your hearts; he will one day have good reason to say to you, as he did to his difciple in "Have I been so long time with the text, DISCOURSE XV. PSALM Xxxix, Part of VER. 12. "FOR I AM A STRANGER WITH THEE, 66 AND A SOJOURNER, AS ALL MY "FATHERS WERE." I N every age of the world, and among people of every nation and language under heaven, (if we may credit the testimony of history and experience) there have been found many virtuous, thoughtful, and enquiring minds; who, from an attentive obfervation of the moral as well as phyfical disorders incident to the prefent fyftem of things, from |