THE TRUE PENITENT. of the Father, and abundantly shed on his servants and handmaids, when he was glorified. Compare Matt. iii. 11. Ephesians i. 13. John vii. 39. Acts i.. 5, 8. and ii. 33, 39. and viii. 15. nd xix:.2. John 39. Titus iii. .6. In the mean time, use all the means of grace with an eye to their end stir up the the gift of hope that is in thee; and, to raise thy, drooping expectation, receive the encouraging testimony of God's redeemed praising people, whose hearts and tongues are ready to testify to thy ears what the following lines declare to thine eyes. V. That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye may also have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness and show unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and is, manifested unto us. Yes, we have found him, of whom Moses and the prophets. did write. From blessed experience we declare, that the Messiah is come, that his essence is love incarnate, his name free salvation, and his delight the eternal happiness of the children of attn. He is the chief among ten thou- sand prophets; ,priests, kings,. and, saviours ; he is altogether love. We staked our souls upon his eter- nal truth, and it was done to us, both according to his word and our, faith.; therefore with humble joy we declare, that he answers, the prayers, and delivers the souls, of perishing sinners, as graciously as he did in the days of his flesh. Upon trials, a thousand times successfully repeated, we proclaim him the help of the helpless, the hope of the hopeless, the health of the sick, the strength Of the weak, the riches of the poor, the peace of the dis- quieted, the comfort of the afflicted, the light of those ,that sit in darkness, the companion of the desolate, the friend of the friendless; the way of the bewildered, the wisdom of the foolish, the righteousness of the ungodly,, the sanctification of the unholy, the re- 16 3 Q
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