_By patient continuance in well-doing seek_ thou _for glory and honour and immortality_. In a constant, zealous performance of all good works, wait thou for that happy hour, when _the King shall say, I was hungry and ye gave me meat; I was thirsty and ye gave me drink. I was a stranger and ye took me in, naked and ye cloathed me. I was sick and ye visited me; I was in prison and ye came unto me. Come, ye blessed of my Father, receive the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world!_ SERMON XXIX. UPON OUR LORD’S SERMON ON THE MOUNT. DISCOURSE IX. MATT. vi. 24‒34. _No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore I say unto you, take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns: yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lillies of the field how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore if God so cloath the grass of the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more cloath you, O ye of little faith? Therefore take no thought, saying, what shall we eat? Or, what shall we drink? Or, wherewithal shall we be cloathed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But first seek ye the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself: sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof._ 1. IT is recorded of the nations whom the king of _Assyria_, after he had carried _Israel_ away into captivity, placed in the cities of _Samaria_, _They feared the_ Lord, _and served their own gods. These nations_, saith the inspired writer, _feared the_ Lord, performed an outward service to him, (a plain proof that they had a fear of God, tho’ not according to knowledge) _and served their graven images, both their children and their children’s children; as did their fathers, so did they unto this day_, 2 Kings xvii. 33, &c.