"The remedies of seasonable recollections": A Hackney Phalanx Sermon for the Fifth Sunday in Lent

From A Course of Sermons, for the Lord's Day throughout the Year, Volume I (1817) by Joseph Holden Pott - associated with the Hackney Phalanx - a sermon for the Fifth Sunday in Lent. This extract is yet further evidence of the ascetic seriousness which can be found in pre-1833 Anglican Lenten preaching, suggesting something rather different to the Tractarian critique of the supposedly 'High and Dry' tradition:

Let us then be careful how we misapply the pleas of natural infirmity. Let not the sense of weakness lead us to forget the remedies which are placed within our reach; the remedies of grace and truth; the remedies of seasonable recollections, of humble thoughts, and timely exercises of religious culture. Above all, let us learn to despise the gross folly of pretended frailties, when the sad and voluntary servitude to base and unworthy objects of pursuit is manifested in our whole choice, and evident in all our conduct. 

The lowest estimate which we can frame of the healing nature of divine grace, which is given together with the word of truth, must inevitably oblige us to admit, that unless we shall be wanting to ourselves, those succours will suffice to countervail the force of human frailty in due measure, and to correct the influence of corrupt propensities ... If then the burden of our common frailty, those weights, of which it is so significantly said, that they so easily beset us, if these impediments remain; yet let us remember, that they do not remain as exceptions to our duty, but as motives rather to religious prudence and exertion.