...much better is i't to be one of Chrift's Fools, than of the Number of the Wife Men of this World ! The Children of this World are wifer in their Generation, than the Children of Light , but then the Children of Light will be found wifer in their Generation too, than the Other,...

...than the children of light do) in relation to thofe of the other. Thirdly* I mall (hew that, altho' the children of this world are wifer* in their generation , than the children T 4 -'/ of light* yet they are far from being Serin. 9. abfotvtely and truly wife. JJ Laflly, \ mall...

...the next words tell us, that the Lord commended the unjuft Steward, becaufe he had done wifely ; far the Children of this World are wifer in their Generation than the Children of Light: Not that he lik'd his Diflionefty or Unfaithfulnefs, for he gives him the Character of an unjuft...

...with the fame Confiftency in the grand Affair of Religion ? Becaufe, as our Saviour has D a told us, " the Children of this World are wifer in " their Generation, than the Children of Light." BUT, Secondly, if pure Religion and undefined confifts in the total Renewal of our corrupted...

...religion, and they reproach the folly and flothfulnefs of chriflians in working out their falvation; the children of this 'world are wifer in their generation than the children of light. No one can be fo unacquainted with the world as not to know that men ufually employ their underftanding...

...was the prudence ? where was the oeconomy of this claufe ? may we not in this inftance difcover, that the children of this world are wifer in their generation than the children of light ? Why r they Shortened the fword of the private men, leafl they fhould be in a capacity to enforce...

...guards to be a nufance, or hurtful to the national conftitution; verifying the proverb in the gofpel; The children of this world are wifer in their generation, than the children cf light. They made no fcruple to fell their votes for an employment, a penfion, or a bribe, in favour...

...happinefs. I proceed in the Second place to give fome account of this, whence it comes to pafs, that " the children of this world ** are wifer in their generation than the children ** of light." And this I fhall do by confidering what advantages " the children of this world* have, as to...

...guards to be a nufance, or hurtful to the national conftitution ; verifying the proverb in the gofpel ; The children of this world are wifer in their generation, than the children oj light. They made no fcruple to fell their votes for an employment, a penfion, or a bribe, in favour...

...of true religion wherever it appears. I am forry to add, that this is one of the inftances in which the children of this world are wifer in their generation than the children of light. Many will not meet together on earth for the worfhip of God, who fhall have but one temple at...