public, to the duties of private life; pre- SERM. pare our hearts for the contemplation of XXXI. nobler objects, and fit us for the converse of more perfect beings than those whom we now affociate with: and when our minds are exalted and capable of tasting spiritual joys, will convey us to them, even to his own heaven, the state of bleffed fpirits, the region of neverfading joy, peace, and immortality. 315 SERMON XXXII. HEBREWS I. 14. Are they not all ministring spirits, sent forth to minifter for them who shall be beirs of Salvation? 1 MONGST all thofe ridiculous SERM. and Α A and abfurd prejudices which arife from a narrow and confined way of thinking, there is not perhaps any one more capable of obstructing the human mind in its fearch after truth, than the vast opinion we are so apt to entertain of our own nature, its dignity, confequence, and importance, XXXII. Children |