XXVI. deferve. From this low fcene, where we SERM. are now engaged, this fink of malice, calumny and detraction, to the regions of peace and justice, of righteousness and truth, may the God of mercies convey us all, through the merits and mediation of our Saviour Jesus Christ. 203 SERMON XXVII. ECCLESIASTES VII. 9. Be not hafty in thy Spirit to be angry, for anger refteth in the bofom of fools. A XXVII. MONGST all thofe violent and SERM. unruly paffions, which disturb the peace and undermine the happiness of mankind, there is not perhaps one which is attended with more fatal and deftructive confequences, than that which the wife man in the words of my text so justly branded with the name of folly; a folly of fo malignant and dangerous a nature, as to root up and destroy all the pleasures of Society; absolutely oppofite and contradictory to the rules of reason, and ut terly |