...world to fave finners, and of confeqnence, our bufinefs muft be the labours of a penitential piety. To fear God, and keep his commandments, is the whole duty of man. From a conviction or Converfion, occafioned by the reveled doftrine of the gofpef, and by the holy...

...this doctrine, that the SE R M.fear of the Lord is vvifdom,(the beginning and the perfection of it) that to fear God and keep his commandments is the whole duty, and whole happinefs of man; but particularly A that it is the fureft way to prefent tranquillity, to...

...— Now, .from all thefe premifes put together, Solomon infers this fhort conclufion in the text, — That to fear GOD, and keep his commandments, is the whole duty of man;— that, to be ferious in the matter of religion, and careful about our future ftates, is that which,...

...; for every man, as a creature of God, is subject to him, its Creator and Lawgiver, and to his kw: to fear God, and keep his commandments, is the whole duty of man ; and is the duty of every man ; and was the duty of Christ, as man. But besides this Christ was made...

...author, in an academic way, difputes on both fides of the queftion ; and at laft concludes properly, that to " fear God and keep his commandments is the whole duty of man ; for God (fays he) will bring every work to judgment, and every fccret th!n¿, whether it be good,...

...all thefe premifes put together, Solomon infers this ffiort conclufion in the text, • .• ' T'liat to fear God, and keep his commandments, is the whole duty of man ; — that, to be ferious in the matter of religion-, and careful about our future ftate is that which,...

...— Now, from all these premises put together, SoIcmon infers this short conclusion in the text,— That to fear GoD, and keep his commandments, is the whole duty of man ; — that, to be serious in the matter of religion, and careful about our future states, is that which,...

...which we maintain for pre-eminence and distinction, we shall find at the conclusion of the whole scene, that to fear God and keep his commandments is the whole duty of man. SERMON XIII. On the BENEFITS to be derived from the HOUSE of MOURNING. ECCLESIASTES, vii. 2, 3, 4....

...good king of Ifrael promifed to teach children. He fays " I will teach you the fear of the Lord." *« To fear God, and keep his commandments, is the whole duty of man." i. You muft know, that there is a God ; a great, wife and good Being, who created you at firft, prefcrves...

...rejoice that he is on the throne of the universe, and study to know and obey his will in ajl things. To fear God and keep his commandments is the whole duty of man. . In discharging this, we ought to spend all the time of our sojourning in the present world. To open...