and protected: In one Case, preserved from the Violence of the Wicked; in the other, from the Contagion of their Punishment, In a Word, Offences against Men must be corrected and difcouraged by present Punishment, or else this World will be a Scene of great Woe and Mifery to the best Men: Violence will prevail, and the Meek, far from inheriting the Earth, will be rooted out of it. Offences against God, though of a deeper Dye, yet have not in them the fame Call for immediate Vengeance: For God fuffers not from the Wickednefs of Men; the Ends of Juftice are best ferved by the Delay, and his Goodness is at present displayed in his Forbearance; and his Honour will foon be vindicated in a more public Theatre than that of this present World, in the Sight of all the Dead, as well as of all the Living. DISCOURSE IX. MATTHEW xxvi. 41. Watch and pray, that ye enter not into Temptation: The Spirit indeed is willing, but the Flesh is weak. F you OR the better understanding of thefe Words, I muft defire to reflect a little upon what Occafion they were spoken, and in what Circumftances our Saviour was, when he made this Exhortation to his Difciples. The Time of his Crucifixion was now near at hand, and he had foretold his Disciples that they should all be offended because of him; upon which St. Peter made a very forward Profeffion of Conftancy, as did likewise all the Disciples. But it does not appear that they clearly understood our Saviour, MATTHEW Xxvi. 41. Watch and pray, that ye enter not into Temptation: The Spirit indeed is willing, but the Flesh is weak. F you OR the better understanding of these Words, I muft defire to reflect a little upon what Occafion they were spoken, and in what Circumstances our Saviour was, when he made this Exhortation to his Difciples. The Time of his Crucifixion was now near at hand, and he had foretold his Disciples that they should all be offended because of him; upon which St. Peter made a very forward Profeffion of Conftancy, as did likewise all the Disciples. But it does not appear that they clearly understood our Saviour, |