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On the 21ft Day of DECEMBER, 1786,

For the Benefit of the GIRLS CHARITY SCHOOL, in READING;

And now published for the Benefit of the fame Charity.

By WILLIAM BROMLEY CADOGAN, M. A.

Rector of St. Luke's, Chelsea, Vicar of St. Giles's, Reading,
And Chaplain to the Right Hon. the Lord Cadogan.

If God fo loved us, we ought alfo to love one another.

READING:

PRINTED by A. M. SMART and T. COWSLADE; and Sold by J. F. and C. RIVINGTONS and J. MATHEWS, LONDON; and J. FLETCHER, OXFORD.

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THIS chapter begins with an exhortation to repentance, and God not only exhorts them to repent, but puts words into their mouths, with which they may return

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unto him." O Ifrael, return unto the

"Lord thy God; for thom haft fallen by "thine iniquity. Take with you words,

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"and turn unto the Lord: fay unto Him, "take away all iniquity, and receive us gra "ciously fo will we render the calves "of our lips. Afhur shall not fave us; wẻ "will not ride upon horfes: neither will wo fay any more to the work of our hands, "Ye are our Gods; for in Thee the father

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In fpeaking upon these words we are naturally led to enquire, firft, who are the fatherlefs;-fecondly, what is the mercy which they find;-and thirdly, where they find it.-in "THEE the fatherlefs findeth mercy."

Firft then, the term "Fatherlefs" is put into the mouths of thofe, who had turned from the living and true God unto idols,

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"their works" which was the cafe with Ifrael and Judah when Hofea prophecied, that is in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, "Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and “in the days of Jeroboam the Son of "Jofiah, king of Ifrael." The prophet is commiffioned to point out to them by figns and by words their fpiritual fornications, a very ftriking expreffion, by which the Holy Ghoft marks the idolatry of those, to whom "I was an Hufband, faith the Lord" and to whom the Lord reprefents himself as a

• Chap i, I.

Jer. xxxi, 32.

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