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thrGofpel

makes

ranifef

.

t.

Fo

But

isitow

made manifefl

6y

the appearing

of

'ow;

Savi-

our

lefus

Cbrifl',

who

hath.abolifred

death, and bath

brought

life

and immortality

to

light

through the

Gofpel.

It

is

the Go

pel

that brings life

and

immortallity

to light,

fo people that

have

not

been accounted with the Gofpel

,

what know

they of

the

glorious

chin,

of heaven,

and

of eternal

life,

it

is ehe

Gofpel

that

brings

life

and

immortality

, the

main

and

principal thing

of

the Gofpel that

it

snakes

manifeil

,

it

is

the

way

of media-

tion,

a

Mediator between

God

and man,

how

trod

bath

recon-

ciled

the

word

to

himfelf

;

there

are glorious myfferies for

the foul to behold that

great

way

of

making God, and man

one,

Chri{i

building up the

vaft

breach that before

was

made

be-

tween

God

and man,

itis

all in

Chrift,that

all our good comes

by a

Mediator,who could ever

have known this

but

by

the Mi-

nifiry of

the

Gofpel revealed?

yea

that

God

bath

filled

jefus

Chriü,

Cod

man

with

all

good', and

he refolves

that not

one

drop

of

his

infinite goodnefs in

order

CO

eternal

life (ball

be

given

to

any of,

the children of men

,

but through

Chria;here

is that intereft

manifefied

, that the

world could never

have

known,butahis

the

Gospel doth

difcover,

yea

it doth difcover

the right

way

to

woríhip God ,

if

we

be

left to

our own

thoughts

we

wander infinitely out

of the

way

, the

greater

light

God

made

to

rule

the

day

,

and

the lefier

to

rule

the

night

;

the

Gofpel that

is

the greater

light

to

difcover fpiritual

things,

and

the

things

of

Gods

worlhip

;

now

humane

nature

may

rule the

light

of

the night,

had

not

you

lived under

the

preaching

of the Gofpel,

what would

you- have known

of the

fecond

Covenant

that God

bath

made with mankind

,

and this

light

of the

Gofpel

is

that that

brings in comfort

to

the heart,

the

heart

never knew

what

true

comfort, meant

till

the Gofpel

came, fohn

R.

iz.

Then

fpukelefus

again

unto

them,

Paying,

r

am the light of the

world,

he

that

followeth me

fhall

not

wal%in

darhrefs,

hut

fhall have the light

of

life.

It

is

light

that

path

a

quick"

ing

power that goeth

along

with

it,

humane

learning

it

is like the

lighting

up

of candles and

torches,

there

is

alight,

but not the light

of

life,

but the

Gofpel

is

the light

of

life,it

brings

life

to

the

foul,

it

is a

light

that

enlightens

the blind

eyes,.,

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