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On the
Excellency of Chri
ft.
ghat you are
not
fo
bad
as
others,
and
that
you
are
in
a
good
cafe, and in
a
good
condition all this while, and
upon
a
conceit,
you
hear, and wonder, and defpife,
but
you
(hall
.
periili,
and
(hall
never
come
to beleeve
thofe
great
things
that Cod
in
your
daies (hall reveal
for
the falvation
of
the
fouls
of others; and
this
is a
molt
dreadful
curie that
is
upon
.
the
hearts of many men and women
that
hear
the great
things
of
the
Gofpel
;
.as
it
is Paid
in
the
fecond
of
the
"Ws, that
they fpake the
wonderful
things
of
Cod,
and yet
there
was fome
that did but mock;
this is
the
condition
of
fome,
that
their
fpirits
fecretly defpife and"contemn
thofe
things
that
they
lhould
adore
;
fuch
things
as
upon the
hearing they
lhould even
fall down upon
their
faces,
and
adore
God
in
the beholding
of
them,
and yet
I
fay,
fighting
of
them,and
refding
to
their
own
waies,and conceits, here
is
the
curie
of
>God
upon
their
hearts, that
though
they
hear
them, yet they (hall
=not
beleeve them,
I
work
a work in
your
daies,
a
work
that
you {hall
in
no
wife bel
eeve,
though
a
man
declare
it unto
you, faith the Holy
aloft,
this
Scrip-
ture
is
very much
fulfilled
in
Congregations where the
Gof-
pet
comes
to
bee preached.
Thirdly, But further, in
the
third place
If
Jefus
Chrift
bee
fo
great
a
wonder, certainly
then
the
mifery
of
man
kind
is
very
great, it
follows from hence; it diere bee
fucb
need
of
fo.
wonderful a
Redeemer,
ph
the
dreadful,
breach
that
fin
h1th
made between
God and
many
that required
filch
a
wonderful, work
of
God to
make
it
up
l
this is
that
that
God
would have
you
have
a
right underfìanding
of,
and
have ferioi
s
thoughts about it
hod
would
not
have
finful
wretched
mat
o
thinit,the
breach.
:between God
and
him
is a
light
matter
,
a
little
thing
-
Iìo,
when,
the
Lord
bath
feat
his.
Son
into
the
world,
az
d
huh
declared
him
to
bee
thus
wonderful
:
when the Lord
(hews
what
a
wonder-
ful
glorious work
of
hies
there
is
in.
his
Son
for-
the
favîng, of
.mankind-,
hee thereby
Both
declare
unto
you
and
Would
have
you;
ltnow
it
,
that
the.,
breaeh
that
your
4in
bath
made
between God
ash
your own
faints,
xt
4a
wonderful
breach_