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SERM. nufactures into thefe Schools; and in more XIX. particular Care to place the Children out to Employments in which they are most wanted, and may be moft ferviceable, and which are moft fuitable to their Ranks. But if there be any thing in the Management of them, which fome particular Persons think fhould be altered, and others are of a contrary Opinion, thefe Things must be referr'd to the Judgment of the Publick, and the Determination of the Publick complied with. Such Compliance is an effential Principle of all charitable Affociations; for without it they could not subsist at all: and by charitable Affociations, Multitudes are put in mind to do Good, who otherwise would not have thought of it; and infinitely more Good may be done, than poffibly can by the feparate Endeavours of the fame Number of charitable Perfons. Now he who refufes to help forward the good Work before us, because it is not conducted exactly in his own Way, breaks in upon that general Principle of Union; which those who are Friends to the Indigent and diftreffed Part of our Fellow-Creatures, will be very cautious how they do in any Cafe: but more especially will they beware, how they

they break in upon that neceffary Principle in SERM. a Cafe of fo great Importance as is the pre- XIX. fent. For the Publick is as much interested

in the Education of poor Children, as in the Prefervation of their Lives.

THIS laft, I observed, is legally provided for. The former is left amongst other Works of Charity, neglected by many who care for none of these Things, and to be carried on by fuch only as think it their Concern to be doing Good. Some of you are able, and in a Situation, to affift in it in an eminent Degree, by being Trustees, and overlooking the Management of these Schools ; or in different Ways countenancing and recommending them; as well as by contributing to their Maintenance: Others can affist only in this latter Way. In what Manner and Degree then it belongs to You, and to me, and to any particular Perfon to help it forward, let us all confider seriously, not for one another, but each of us for himself.

AND may the Bleffing of Almighty GoD
accompany this Work of Charity,
which He has put into the Hearts of
his Servants, in Behalf of these poor
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Children

SERM.
XIX.

Children that being now trained up in the way they should go, when they are old they may not depart from it. May He, of his Mercy, keep them safe amidst the innumerable Dangers of this bad World, through which they are to pafs, and preferve them unto his heavenly Kingdom.

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SERMON

Preached before the

HOUSE of LORDS,

ΙΝ ΤΗΕ

Abbey Church of Westminster,

On Thursday, June 11, 1747.

Being the Anniverfary of his MAJESTY'S
Happy Acceffion to the Throne,

I TIM. ii. I, 2.

I exhort, that first of all, fupplications, prayers, interceffions, and giving of thanks be made for all men: For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godlinefs and bonefly.

XX.

T is impoffible to defcribe the general SERM, End, which Providence has appointed us to aim at in our Paffage through the prefent World, in more expreflive Words, than thefe very plain ones of the Apostle, to lead a quiet and peaceable life, in all godliFf2

ness

SERM. nefs and honefty: A quiet and peaceable life, XX. by way of Distinction, furely, from eager, tumultuary Pursuits in our private Capacity, as well as in Opposition both to our making Infurrections in the State, and to our fuffering Oppreffion from it. To lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty, is the Whole that we have any Reason to be concerned for. To this the Conftitution of our Nature carries us; and our external Condition is adapted to it.

Now in Aid to this general Appointment of Providence, Civil Government has been instituted over the World, both by the Light of Nature and by Revelation, to instruct Men in the Duties of Fidelity, Juftice, and Regard to common Good, and enforce the Practice of these Virtues, without which there could have been no Peace or Quiet amongst Mankind; and to preferve, in different Ways, a Senfe of Religion, as well as Virtue, and of God's Authority over us. For if we could fuppofe Men to have lived out of Government, they must have run Wild, and all Knowledge of Divine Things must have been loft from among them, But by means of their uniting under it, they have been preferved in fome tolerable

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