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SERMON I.

PREACHED ON THE FIFTH SUNDAY IN LENT, 1839.

EXODUS iii. 22.

Every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver and jewels of gold, and raiment: and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.

THESE words, with which the first Lesson of this Morning's Service ends, have been turned oftentimes to very mischievous uses.

Bold and bad men, who have cast off the fear of God for themselves, and take an unholy pleasure in making their neighbours as bad as they are, will not shrink from saying that the commandment which these words contain cannot have come from God, because the act commanded is an act of dishonesty; that the Bible, therefore, which sets these words before us as having been

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