The casting down of our spirits in true humility is but like throwing a ball on the ground, which makes it rebound the higher to heaven.—Mason.

Those that usurp the honours that do not belong to them, will shortly be filled with the shame that doth.— Henry.

I know that I am hateful and contemptible, and yet I cannot help idolizing that painted thing which I myself am, nor do I ever think the worse of any man for being so mistaken as to offer me the incense of his esteem:Adam.

Oh, how much hidden worth is there, which in this world is either lost in the dust of contempt, and cannot be known, or wrapped up in the veil of humility, and will not be known.-Henry.

HYPOCRISY.

"They come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness."-Ezekiel.

MANY have clean hands but unclean hearts. They

wash the outside of the cup and platter, when all is filthy within. Now the former without the latter, profiteth a man no more than it profited Pilate, who condemned Christ, to wash his hands in the presence of the people; he washed his hands of the blood of Christ, and yet had a hand in the death of Christ. The Egyptian

temples were beautiful on the outside, but within you shall find nothing but some serpent or crocodile. Judas was a saint without, but a sinner within; openly a disciple, but secretly a devil.-Mead.

The temple of the Lord is cried up, and the ark of the Lord stickled for with a great deal of seeming zeal, by multitudes that have no regard at all to the Lord of the temple and the God of the ark; as if a fiery concern for the name of Christianity would atone for a vain contempt of the thing.-Henry.

Counterfeit piety can never bring in true pleasure.Henry.

Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery.— Henry.

Grace is the new nature of a Christian, and hypocrisy that art which counterfeits it; and the more exquisite it is in imitation, it is the more plausible to men, but the more abominable to God.-Leighton.

A man is not what he saith, but is what he doeth. To say what we do, and not to do what we say, is but to undo ourselves by doing. Take heed, sirs, that you do not take yourselves to hell with heavenly words.—Dyer.

The prosperous state of the Church makes hypocrites, and her distress discovers them.-Leighton.

Sinners are the worst of men, hypocrites the worst of sinners. Henry.

The nominal professions of religion with which many persons content themselves, seem to fit them for little else than to disgrace Christianity by their practice.Milner.

Hypocrites often cover their real enmity against the power of godliness with a pretended zeal for the form of it.-Henry.

Many sweeten an error with truth, to make men swallow it more readily.

So long as we think we are what we are not, and have what we have not, we can receive nothing at the hands of God; and reformation is impossible.—Adam.

Some people angle for praise with the bait of humility. I hope you will never be caught by it. They condemn themselves, hoping that you will contradict them, and commend them. Rather join them in running them down. It is always better to err on the safe side.— Jay.

Dissembled piety is double iniquity.-Henry.

IGNORANCE.

"The mouth of fools pouring out foolishness.”—Solomon.

ENVY none that know more than myself, but pity them that know less.

An illiterate person is the world in darkness, and like to Polyphemus's statue with the eye out.

IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL.

POW can it enter into the thoughts of man that the soul, which is capable of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing, almost as soon as it is created? Are such abilities made for no purpose? A brute arrives at a point of perfection which he can never pass. In a few years he has all the endowments of which he is capable; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present. Were a human soul thus to stand still in her accomplishments, were her faculties to be incapable of further enlargement, I could imagine it might fall away insensibly, and drop at once into a state of annihilation. But can we believe a thinking being, that is in a perpetual progress of improve

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ment, and travelling on from perfection to perfection, after having just looked abroad into the works of the Creator, and made a few discoveries of His infinite goodness, wisdom, and power, must perish in her first setting out, and in the very beginning of her inquiries ?— Addison.

INCONSISTENCY.

"This people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their hearts far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men."—Isaiah.

PRAYER without watching is hypocrisy, and watching without prayer is presumption.-Jay.

We do but mock God in saying that we are sorry for our sin, and that it grieves us to the heart if we continue to indulge in it. In vain do we pretend a change of our mind, if we do not evidence it by a change of our way.— Henry.

To sin against knowledge is a much greater crime than an ignorant trespass; as the crime which is capable of no excuse is more heinous than the fault which admits of a tolerable plea.-Justin Martyr.

Were a holy life uniformly presented as the attendant upon all who are named by the name of Jesus, the arguments of unbelief, and the sarcasms of profaneness, should strike harmlessly; yea, fall off as pointless darts from the shield of our defence. But when the ranks of those who enlist under the banner of the Captain of