particular mode of expression, shall be used _more or less frequently_? Surely we must earnestly desire to contend with one another, before we can make this a bone of contention! O let us not any more, for such very trifles as these, give our common enemies room to blaspheme! Rather let us at length cut off occasion from them that seek occasion! Let us at length (O why was it not done before?) join hearts and hands in the service of our great Master. As we have _one Lord, one faith, one hope of our calling_, let us all strengthen each others hands in God, and with one heart and one mouth declare to all mankind, _The Lord our righteousness_. SERMON XXI. UPON OUR LORD’S SERMON ON THE MOUNT. DISCOURSE I. MATT. v. 1, 2, 3, 4. _And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain; and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying, Blessed are the poor in spirit; for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they that mourn; for they shall be comforted._ 1. OUR Lord had now [47]_gone about all_ Galilee, beginning at the time [48]_when_ John _was cast into prison_, not only _teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom_, but likewise _healing all manner of sickness, and all manner of disease among the people_. It was a natural consequence of this, that [49]_there followed him great multitudes from_ Galilee, _and from_ Decapolis, _and from_ Jerusalem, _and from_ Judea, _and from_ the region _beyond_ Jordan. [50]_And seeing the multitudes_, whom no synagogue could contain, even had there been any at hand, _he went up into a mountain_, where there was room for all, that _came unto him from every quarter. And when he was set_, as the manner of the _Jews_ was, _his disciples came unto him. And he opened his mouth_ (an expression denoting the beginning of a solemn discourse) _and taught them, saying_――