nually flying each from the other into oppo. fite errors. It might be well for fome of us to be more diftinctly aware that to preach Christian Morality, to preach it in detail, to take from time to time a specific moral duty for the avowed fubject of a fermon, to purfue the duty through its fubdivifions, to point out its bearings on the transactions of common life, (be it obferved that I speak of morality rendered chriftian by being unequivocally built on faith in Christ,) is not only not to be legal, but is to ftrengthen by practical application the impreffion of doctrinal truth, and to supply to the humble follower of our Lord aid highly important both as to the perception and the discharge of his daily obligations. There are others among us to whom it might be profitable if they were led clearly to discern, that to preach juftification by faith, by faith only, without the deeds of the Law, (without the deeds either of the ceremonial or of the moral law contributing an atom towards the purchase of our juftification, the free gift of God through the blood of His Son,) is not only to preach with the apostles and with the articles of our church, is not only not to make void the law, but is to establish the law (a). (a) Rom. iii. 31. The The mode of preaching which, in uniting and incorporating doctrinal with practical instruction, at one time difcourfes fpecifically on a doctrine, developes it,' establishes it, applies it to the advancement of holiness: at another, leads found doctrine and correfponding practice hand in hand from the commencement to the clofe: at another, selects a christian or an unchristian disposition, a moral or an immoral practice, as the prominent fubject, yet anxiously and manifeftly fixes on the Great Corner-stone every part of the fuperftructure: this I conceive to be the mode, by which a Christian minifter may hope the most efficaciously to declare all the counfel of God (b).. (b) Acts, xx. 27. CON MATTHEW, V. 17, 18. Think not that I am come to deftroy the law or the prophets : I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I fay unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one Juftification not attainable by Acts of ROMANS, iii. 28. Therefore we conclude that |