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On
the
Éxcellency
ofChrift,
truths
,
therefore when
you
fee
people come
to
hear
many
truths,
and
fit
under
a
clear
and
diftine}
Minifiry
that
opens
many truths
unto them
,
it
may
bee
many
will get
brain-
knowledge
that
(hall
make
them to confer
about thofe
truths, but
yet not
changed
:
you
will
fay,
What
fhould
bee
the
reafon
why
they
that
have
fo
much knowledge
live
wickedly? why
here
is
the
ground
,
Jefus Chrift
hee hath
not
exercifed
this Prophetical
Office
of
his
fo
far
upon
them,
to
over-power
their
hearts , Here
is
the reafon
why
fuch
men have hadknowledge
in
the
brain
and
yet lived
wickedly
a
long
time
yet
if
they belonged to
Chrift,
at
fotne
oiler
time
they
foall
come
to
hear
the
Word
oft
God,
they
íhall
hear the
very fame
truths
they heard
be-
fore, and
perhaps
delivered
in
a
weaker
manner than they
have heard
it
,
and
yet
their
hearts
4uí1
bee
a
hundred:
times
more wrought
.upon
at
that time
than ever
they were
wrought upon before. Sometimes
a
man
comes
by
acci-
,dent
into
a
Congregation , and
hears
a
Minifter upon
fuch
a fub;e&
and
it
may
bee
a
Minifter
by
the
by
fpeaks
of
fomething
that
hee
little
thought of perhaps before hee,
came
up
,
and thisman, hath heard
the
fame
truth largely
handled,perhaps
many
Tra,ates
about
it
heretofore,and
his
heart
never
touch'd,but
now
hearing
it
mentioned
by the
by
-his
heart
is
mightilywrought upon,and
he
goes
away,
and
Taitli,Verily
God
is
in
this
place.
What
is
the
reafon?
why.
here
Chrifl
fpeaks to
the
heart,
and before man only
fpoke
to
the ear,this
is
a
wonderful
thing
in
the PropheticalOfñce
of Chrift,
that
bee
(peaks
to
the heart; and thus fhould
wee
exercife
oúr
faith
upon Chrift in this,when-
wee come
to
the
Word,look
upon
Chrifi
by
the eye of
faith as
the great
Pro-
phet
of the
Church ,
that
teaches
foas
no
man
teaches,
that
loth
not onely
fpeak
unto
the
ear,butfpeaks
unto
the heare.
7 Further', Chrift
-is
wonderful in
his
Prophetical
Office
in
this
, In
that
hee
teaches
immediately
hirnfelf;
indeed
hee
loth
teach
mediately,that
is
by
his
Minil
+ers,
therefore
you
(hall finde
.At.a.i.
there
St.
Luke
fpeaking of Chrilfs
teaching.when
hee.lived
here.
upon
the
earth,
faith
bee
in