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 of their ways and as a pattern for them so imitate: but if he live in the neglect of family worship, the omission of which is represensible in them, where is the propriety of is conduct, and how are we to distinguish between the sincere christian and the merely nominal professor? It is possible they may be equally upright in their dealings among men, though from different motives; but as these motives are hidden from us, we must judge of their religion, integrity, and morals, by heir deportment in the world, the family and the church, to which they both respectively belong.

There are persons who never felt the con- training power of divine love, that are strictly honest in their dealings, exemplary in their families, and moral in their conduct. Such perhaps were some of the Pharisees mentioned scripture, and such once was the persecuting Saul. If then it be possible for a man, under the influence of moral principles, to appear unblameable in the management of is civil, his relative, and social duties, it is