The plan of the following difcourfe is partly taken from a fermon of Monf. SAURIN, on the fame fubject; to whom the author is likewife indebted for many excellent obfervations, under each of the heads into which it is divided. DISCOURSE XIV. St LUKE, CHAP. Xxii. VER. 61, 62. * AND 66 THE LORD TURNED, AND 66 LOOKED UPON PETER; AND PETER REMEMBERED THE WORD 66 OF THE LORD, HOW HE HAD 66 SAID UNTO HIM, BEFORE THE "COCK CROW, 66 NY ME THRICE. AND PETER THOU SHALT DE WENT OUT, AND WEPT BIT"TERLY." O be equally capable of forming Tand and executing great and elevated defigns, is the diftinguishing characteriftic of worldly heroifm. It is unmoved at the profpect of difficulties or dangers, and always prepared to counter them with spirit and address. Such likewife is the Heroifm 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 firmnefs he braves the affaults of his adverfaries, and celebrates his victories with this fong of triumph: "Who "fhall feparate us from the LOVE OF "CHRIST? Shall tribulation, or distress, "or perfecution, or famine, or nakedness, "or peril, or the fword ?-Nay, in all "these things, we are more than Con"" querors, THROUGH HIM THAT LOV"ED US." Generous, fublime, and Godlike, as this difpofition undoubtedly is, we must be careful, in the cultivation of it, not to fuffer it to degenerate into rashnefs or prefumption. Too many there are, who rush into danger, without weighing the confequences, or propor tioning |