He hath fhewed thee, O Man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, Jefus faid unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and SERMON I. PROVERBS, Xviii. 14. The Spirit of a man will fuftain his infirmity; but a wounded Spirit who can bear? T HE obvious meaning of this inftructive fentence, if regarded merely in a phyfical or natural sense, certainly amounts to no more than this, viz. That good animal spirits will fupport a man under the ordinary calamities of life; and enable him to endure it's cross accidents, it's pains and fickneffes, with a becoming and manly firmVOL. I. nefs: B |