The Government of the Paffions, and cruel Effects of finful Anger. On the important Duty of Thanksgiv- I will blefs the Lord at all times: His praife hall continually be in my mouth-My foul fhall make her boaft in the Lord: the humble fhall hear thereof, and be glad.-O magnify the Lord with me; and let us exalt His Name together.-I fought the Lord, and AN A POLOGY W To the PUBLIC. HEN a Female Writer prefumes to obtrude upon the world the productions of her leisure hours, under the title of Sermons, it may poffibly be expected that fome excuse should be made for fo daring an ufurpation of the facred province. It is therefore with the ftricteft truth afferted, that a ftrange concurrence of circumftances has, on this occafion, ushered into the world those manufcripts, which, like many others that make their appearance in print, were not defigned, at the time they were penned, for the inspection of the Public. Thefe circumftances, as they would many of them reflect on private characters, |