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How
to
cow
to be
Bleffed.
2I
be happy
:
Chril}
is
come
from
the
bofome
of
the Father to
reveal unto
mankind
thofe eternal(
counfels
of the Father
a-
bout
mans
Lail:
end.
Man
fence
the
fal
would never have come
to
have known
wherein
his
laft
end
conf
its,
and
what good
it
is
that
he
is
capable of and
God
intends towards him,
had
not
Chrift
came
from
the
bofome of
the Father to declare
it,
.ô
the
poore
and
low_
things
wherein the children
ofmen
place
their
happinelfe in,
that
know
nor Jefus
Chrift, but
are
{trait
-
gers
to
Jefus Chrift
;
When
Chrift
comes
to
be
revealed,
the
thoughts and hearts of men are raifed
and
inlarged, they
looke after happineffe in another manner
then,
then
formerly.
they did
:
O
let
us
blefle
God
for
Jefus Chriff
by whom
we
come
to
-know
how we may
be
happy
:
that is, wherein
our
loft
end
confifts,
that
high good
that
mans
nature
is
made
capable
of
by
God.
2d
yi
It
is
the
end
& fcope
of
the
Miniftry
to (hew to
people
how
they
may come
to be
bleffed
;_For
this Sermon
was
prea-
ched
efpecially to
the
ApoR1es
when they had
their
Commif-
fioñ,
as
I
opened the
Lafl
day.
Now
in
that Christ
fpeakes
fo
much
of
blef3edneffe
to
them, it
was
to
prepare them
tò hoc
and Preach
it
to the world
:
Oh
'cis
the
Miniftry
of the word
that
fhewes
to men
how
they
may come
to
be happy
:
This
is
all the hurt
it
will
do you,to thewyou
how you
may
be
bleffed-
for
ever
:
Hôw poor and miferable are
thofe people
that
live
without the
Miniftry of the
Word
?
What
poor'
things
doe
they
plant
their
happineffe
in'?
When
you
come
to
attend
the
Miniflry
of the Gofpel,
you
mutt come
to
attend
it
as
a.
meffage from
God,
to-
fhew
you how
you
may
be
happy
for
ever
It's
called
the Gofpel that
they Preach
;
good tidings:
It
brings
tidings
to
you
from heaven
how
thofe
fouls
and bodyes
of
yours may
come
robe
eternally
happy
:.
Come
with
fuch
a
difpofition
to
the
Miniftry
of the word
:
Thore
therefore
who forfake
the
Miniftry
of the word
forfake
their
.own
mercy, the
way
that might
fhew them
to
be
happy
:
Oh
how
vild
are mens hearts
to
prize
it
at no
higher
a
rate
then
noft
doe,
fo as
ye cannotthink
it
worth
the
enduring
a
lit
le
cold
in-a
morning
to
come
to
attend
ujon.the
Miniftry
that
is.
appointal