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Grace
A!Jo~tnding
banging
ov-er
our
Heads,
fct'
._our
Sins,
and
T·eady
to break .
.ttpon
us, and tbat ·the
Nini–
vites
R~tne,dy
\vas now.
highly neceffary:
Hereu,pon · he gathered
h1s
.Congregation
at
Bedford,
where
he .mofily
hved,
and had 'li–
ved, and had
fpent
the greateft part of his
Life;
and
there being
n?
convenient
place
to be had for
the Entertainment
of
fa
great
a
Confluence·
of PeoJ?le
as
foll.o~ed
him,
up.
on the
Account
ofh1s
Teachtng, he confi1l-
_ted
with
then1, for
Building a Meeting
Houfe
· to which they made their
Voluntary
Contri–
butions, with all
chcarfulnefs
' and alacrity,
and
the
firft time he appeared there to
Edi-·.
fie,
the place was. fo thronged,
that
many-
··was
conftrained to
fray
without, though the
Houfe
was
very
fpacious
every
one
ftriving
to
partake
of
his Inflrucrions,
that
were
~f
his perfwafion; and Ihow
their
good will
to-
wards him,
by
being
prefent
a~
the
opening
t&e
Place, and here he lived in much
Peace
and quiet of 1\1ind,
contenting
himfelf with .
that
little
God
had befiowed
upon
him and
fequeftering hin1felf
from all
fecular
imploy·
ments, to follow
th~t
of his Call
to
t~e
Miniftry,
for as God
fa
id
to
Mofes;
he
th~t
made
the
Lips and Heart, can give Eloquence .
and
Wifdom,
without
extraord~nary
ac-
quirements in an Univerfity,
·
·.
During
thefe things there were
R~gulators
fent
into
all Cities
and Towns Corporate,
to new
model
the
.G~v~rnriient
in
the
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