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On
the
Excellency
of
Chri
f't.
i
5
then
ir.
follows
,
Beware therefore left
that
come
Ripon
you,
which
is
fl
oceu
din
the Prophets,Behold
ye
defpifers,-and
wonder, and perifn;
-
as
if bee
il,ould
fay,
you
hear the
Gofpel about the
glorious way
that
God
bath
to
reconcile
fanners
to
himfelf, to'juffifie (inners,
but in
the mean
time
your
hearts do
dole
with your own
Conceits , and
your
own
waies,
with the
Law
of
Motes
and think
by
your
orvu
goad meanings,
and your own
good
works,
that
you
that
do well
enoug
,
and
!hall
hand
before God;
but
faith
the
Apoftle,
Be.
are
left that
come upon
you which is
fpo-
ken
of
in
the Prophets, Behold yce defpifers,
and
wonder:
you
perhaps, when you
hear fuck
things
declared unto
you
;
you account it ftrange
doarine,
and
you
hand and
wonder
what
the
meaning of thofe things should
bee
;
but
as
you
wonder,
fo
you
do
defpife;
you
condemn
it
as a
ftrange
thing
that
you
were not
wont to
hear
heretofore,
and
as
a
thing you
cannot
underhand the
reafon of; this
is
the
ufu-
al
guize of
carnal hearts, when they hear any do6trine ,
though there bee never
fo
much
of God in
it,
and
of
the
Myftery
of the Gofpel that is revealed
in
it,
yet
if
they
underhand not
the reafon
of
it, if it
appear \to
them
as a
new
thing,
they wonder indeed, but
they
defpife with
-
all,
and
condemn
it,
and
flight
it,
and
pafs
it
over
,
as
they
did
St.'
Pawls
Do;rine,
what
will
this
Wier
fay?
hee
brings
us
news
of
a
ftrange
God,
and the like
:
fo
thefe
are
things
that
people
are
not acquainted
withall,
and
fo
they
cab them off, and defpife
but mark,
faith
the Text
,
Take
heed, beware
left
this come upon you,
that
you
(hall
behold and
wonder, and defpife and
perifh
too,
for
Í
work a work in your
dales,
a-work which
`
you
!hall in no
wife
beleeve,
though a 'Min
declare
it
unto
you
:
these
(halt
beethe
great
Counfels
of God'revealed in
your
dales, and
in
"your
-,
Congregations,
there
!hall
bee
revealed thofe
Counfels
of
God,
whereby
God intends
to
fave many
fouls;
and
hire
and
there
God
will
make
known
thefe
things
to
fave poorfouls,
but
you
in the
mean time being
conceited
of
your-own
únderllandtngs,
or
Your
own
Civil
Righteoufnefs,
that