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Romans 13th 12th V} January 1800 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness & put on the armour of light. The words before us were addressed to the christians at Rome: those who were beloved of God, and called to be saints.- The exhortation contained in them holds up two things- 1st An injunction to renounce every sinful practice- these in the stile of the text are works of darkness- because they proceed from ignorance & depravity of heart- & unclear many of them are committed in darkness in the absence of the natural sun.- 2dly it enjoins a course of holy living