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DOMESTIC DUTIES,

BY

SAMUEL STENNETT, D. D.

I WILL WALK WITHIN MY HOUSE WITH A PERFECT HEART.

DAVID.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED BY J. RITCHIE,

FOR J. OGLE, PARLIAMENT-SQUARE; M. OGLE, GLASGOW;

AND R. OGLE, LONDON.

-1800.

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DISCOURSE I.

INTRODUCTORY DISCOURSE.

THE DUTIES OF BENEVOLENCE CON

SIDERED AND ENForced.

PHIL. ii. 4.

Look not every man on his own things,, man alfo on the things of others.

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S man was made for fociety, it is the duty and intereft of every one to contribute what lies in his power to the general good. This is a plain dictate of nature, and is abundantly confirmed and enforced by fcripture. Whoever confiders the divine benevolence which breathes through the gospel, and which fhone fo illuftriously in the countenance of its great author, the Lord Jefus Chrift, muft clearly fee that it is impoffible for a man to be a genuine Christian, without feeling, in a degree at least, that generous warmth which a public spirit infpires. When the Son of righteousness first arose upon this miserably cold and benighted world, the balmy influence of his grace diffused itself through the breafts of thousands.

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