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an
the
Excellency
of
Chrzf.
A note
of
Trial.
people
in the world
periìi,
and
when
you
come
to
hear the
way
of
caving
man,
and
what
it
col+,
and
the great
diffi-
culty of
ir,
you may
then
aand
and wonder
that
any
should
bee faved
:
Oh when ever you
chink
of
falvation , think
wifely
of this, it
is a
wonderful
work
of
God
to
fave
a
fin-
ner
,
and
the moll
wonderful
work
that
ever
God
did do;
why, becaufe
the
way
of
faving
a
finner
is
fo
firange
;
and
truly
my
Brethren
,
then doth
God
begin to work
favingly
upon
the heart
of
a finner
,
when
the
finner begins to
fiand
and wonder at the
way
of faving , and
till
that
time
it
cannot
bee
conceived
that
God
is
beginning favingly
to
work
upon
your
hearts.
I
appeal
to
your
conferences
, you
that
have gone on in
a
fecure
dead-hearted
way, when
was
ever
your
hearts
taken
up
in
admiring at
the
way
of
Gods
laving (inners
?
why, if
it hath done id, that
is a
good
evi.
dence that God
is
beginning to fhew himfelf
unto
you
in
a
laving way.
But
now
if
you go
on
,
and have but
low
thoughts about the way of
falvation, if
your hearts do not
fanaifie
Gods
Name
in admiring at the wonderful
way of
falvation, know,that
yet
the Gofpel
is
hidden
to
you,
cer-
tainly
you
yet
do
not
underfiand
the
counfels of God
about
the
way
of falvation , when your hearts are
not taken
up
wirh admiring
at the
glory
of
God
in
it.
I
will but leave
this
note of
Trial
with you.,
whether
Chrift
bee
revealed
to
you
;
have your fouls
wondred
at
him
,
My Brerhen
?
there
are divers things
that men
n
on
der
at
in the world , and
their
hearts are
taken
with them,
and
all
becaufe they
underfiand not
Chrift
the
great
Won-
der of
the world.
Wee
read
in
Rev.i7.
that
when Anti-
drift
had
gotten
a
great deal of
power
,
that
the world
did
wonder
at
him,
verf.6.
when
I
jam
her,
l
wondred with
great
admiration,
d-
c.
Antichrift
having
a
great deal of
power
makes
men
to
wonder
much
at
him. Now in verf.
8.
;
he
Beall
which
then fawett
waa
and
:s
not,
and
Mall
afcend
out
of
the bottomlefspit,
and
go
into
perdition
,
and
they
that
dwell
on
the
earth fhallwonder,
(whsfe
names
were
not
written
in
the
book.
of life
from
the
foundation
of
the
world)
when they
behold
the.