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Bishop Horne on preaching the Gospel, pp. 7, 8. ‘A morality more elevated and pure, than is to be met with in the pages of Seneca or Epictetus, will breathe through your sermons founded on a basis which every understanding can comprehend, and it is enforced by sanctions which nothing but the utmost stupidity can despise—a morality of which the love of God, and a devoted attachment to the Redeemer, are the plastic soul which, pervading every limb, and expressing itself in every lineament of the new creature, gives it a beauty all his own. As it is the genuine fruit of just and affecting views of Divine truth, you will never sever it from its parent stock, nor indulge the fruitless hope of leading men to holiness, without strongly imbuing them with the spirit of the Gospel. Truth and holiness are, in the Christian system, so intimately allied, that the warm and faithful inculcation of the one, lays the only foundation for the other.’ Hall’s Sermon, p. 39.