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DISCOURSE XIV.

ON St. PETER'S DENIAL OF CHRIST.

St. LUKE, CHAP. xxii. VER. 61, 62.

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The plan of the following discourse is partly taken from a fermon of Monf. SAURIN, on the fame fubject; to whom the author is likewife indebted for many excellent observations, under each of the heads into which it is divided.

DISCOURSE XIV.

St LUKE, CHAP. xxii. VER. 61, 62.

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THE LORD TURNED, AND LOOKED UPON PETER; AND PETER REMEMBERED THE WORD OF THE LORD, HOW HE HAD SAID UNTO HIM, BEFORE THE "COCK CROW, THOU SHALT DE

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NY ME THRICE. AND PETER “ WENT OUT, AND WEPT BIT" TERLY."

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To be equally capable of forming and executing great and elevated designs, is the distinguishing characteriftic of worldly heroism. It is unmoved at the profpect of difficulties or dangers, and always prepared to en

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counter them with spirit and address. Such likewise is the Heroism of the Chriftian. The love of Virtue in its Eternal Source leading to Supreme Beatitude, is the object to which his affections afpire. With fortitude and firmness he braves the affaults of his adversaries, and celebrates his victories with this song of triumph: "Who "shall separate us from the LOVE OF "CHRIST? Shall tribulation, or distress, "or perfecution, or famine, or nakedness, "or peril, or the sword?-Nay, in all " these things, we are more than Conquerors, THROUGH HIM THAT LOV"ED US."

Generous, fublime, and Godlike, as this disposition undoubtedly is, we must be careful, in the cultivation of it, not to fuffer it to degenerate into rashness or presumption. Too many there are, who rush into danger, without weighing the consequences, or proportioning

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