¢I¢ 1 Converfation becoming the Gofpel S E R M. to worfhip God in fpirit and truth, having XV. laid a foundation for it in the juft fentiments it containeth, expreffed with fuch plainnefs that any one may urderftand them, con- cerning the infinite perfedion of his nature, his unity, his impartial righteoufnefs, and immenfe bounty, his abfolute dominion and univerfal care of his creatures and difpofing of them in the belt manner, and ordering all events for the greateft good. Thefe doc- trines are not the fecret peculiar opinions of a few wife and learned men, perhaps they were fo before the chriftian revelation was given, but the common profeffed belief of the moft vulgar chriftians. How excellent, how fublime are the notions, though deli- vered with an admirable fimplicity, which the facred writers give us of the fupremacy, the independance, the immenfity, the un-. (potted holinefs, the goodnefs, and the un: changeablenefs of the Supreme Being ; of his creating all things by the foie command of his will, and preferving them by his almigh- ty power, of his filling all parts of the un verfe with his prefence, of his hating ini- quity, and diftinguifhing the righteous with his approbation, extending his care even to their moft minute concernments in this world, as he will.finally make a great difa 2 ference
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