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 to be due, and which the present date of our existence renders both our privilege and duty.

If then, Philetus, the neglect of family worship cannot be vindicated in the openly profane, how can it be excused or countenanced in the professed christian, who must experience a double tie for the performance of this relative and social duty. Besides the providential favours of which all men are undeservedly partakers, he receives a measure of those spiritual supplies that are infinitely superior, which admit of no comparison with the sublimest earthly, good: he should therefore certainly be exemplary in piety; he should think it his meat and drink to do the will of his heavenly father; and especially when he considers that his seperating himself from the corrupt conversation, amusements, and company of the world, bespeaks in him a love of more lasting and refined pleasures, By his own voluntary seclusion, he tacitly condemns the sinful customs and manners of the wicked; he sets himself up as a reprover of