tea 274, Attending public klruclion, S E R M. tion, that they attend the publifhing it, XL and ufe the outward means God hath ap- pointed for their Inftru6tion, a great deal more remaineth yet to be done, that they may be entitled to the bleffednefs here pro- nounced by Solomon, to thofe who hear wifdom. It is not merely an outward at- tendance the word of God demandeth, many who pay it that refpeft, and even profefs to believe it, yet receive the grace of God in vain ; I, will therefore proceed in the Second place, to confider what is imported in hearing. And let us obferve that the fcripture reprefenteth this as the fum of that duty and refpeft which God demandeth for Chrift who is his wifdom, and the great re- vealer of his will to mankind. In one of the molt celebrated prophecies of the Old Teftament, concerning the Meffias, this is exprefily required with great folemnity, and under the molt fevere penalties, .Dent. xviii, is. The Lord thy God will raife up unto thee a prophet fromthe midJl of thee, like unto me (faith Wes) unto him (hall ye hearken; al- moil the fame words are repeated in ver. 18. and in the 19th it is added, and it 'hall cone to paf , that whofoever will not hearken unto 2 ntp
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