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communications of die frail Samaritan woman, he 

 pardons the adultrefs, he abfolves the female of- 

 fender who bathed his feet with her tears ; but 

 hear how he inveighs againft the ambitious : — 

 *' Woe unto you, fcribes and pharifees, for ye love 

 " the uppermofl feats in the fynagogues, and the 

 " chief places at feafls, and greetings in the mar- 

 ** kets, and to be called of men, Rabbi ! Woe 

 *' unto you, alfo, ye lawyers; for ye lade men with 

 ** burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourfelves 

 ** touch njt the burdens with one of your fingers! 

 *■ Woe unto you, lawyers, for ye have taken away 

 *' the key of knowledge : ye entered not in your- 

 *' felves, and them that were entering in ye hin- 

 *^ dercd 1 and fo on *." He declares to them 

 that, notwithftanding their empty honours in this 

 Woild, harlots Iliould go before them into the 

 kingdom of God. He cautions us, in many 

 places, to be on our guard againft them; and inti- 

 mates that we (liould know them by their fruits. 

 In pronouncing decifions fo different from ours. 

 He judges our paffions according to their natural 

 adaptations. He pardons proftitution, which is 

 in itlelf a vice, but which, after all, is a frailty 

 only, relatively to the order of Society; and He 

 condemns, without mercy, the fm of ambition, as 

 a crime which is contrary, at once, to the order of 



* Luke xi. 43, &-C. 



Society, 



