a Attending public Inflru5lion, SE R M. a vain world, and a variety of voices found- I. ing in our ears, and calling us different ways, °`''r°' the wifdom of God hath the firft right to be heard, and what he prefcribeth, to be at- tended to. A great and neceffary point is then gained, and a foundation laid for our obedience ; for as one fatal, and, indeed, very general caufe of difobedience, is inat- tention, when once we are delivered from that, a quite contrary courfe may be ex- pe led. There can be little doubt but reli- gion will make way for itfelf and prevail, if we let it fo far into our hearts, as to give it a fair hearing. It may be juftly faid, no man was ever impious and wicked upon mature deliberation; and to fay otherwife is to affront religion, and in effet to fay the directly contrary to what the apoftle affirm - eth, that it is a reafonable fervice. But though in fait a great many who hear and profefs religion, are fo hardened through the deceitfulnefs of fin, that no impreflion is made upon them, it is, we will acknow- ledge, a reafonable demand on behalf of di- vine wifdom, and particularly of the great prophet whom God bath fent into the `vorld, that we fhould liften to and feri- pufly confider what he faith ; and that we áould try whether there be fuch truth and fuck
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