What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every SERMON 1. SERIOUSNESS IN RELIGION INDISPENSABLE ABOVE ALL OTHER DISPOSITIONS. se do te mere Boddstignited 1 PETER, iv, 7. Be ye, therefore, sober, and watch unto prayer. THE first requisite in religion is serious No impression can be made without it. An orderly life, so far as others are able to observe us, is now and then produced by prudential motives, or by dint of habit; but without seriousness there can be no religious principle at the bottom, no course of conduct, flowing from religious motives ; in a word, there can be no religion. This cannot exist without seriousness upon the subject. Perhaps a teacher of religion has more difficulty in producing B |