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How
to come
to
be
Iileff°ed.
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to thew hapl
inef3e
to
thole
that
God- in-
tends eternal
good
to.
O theconnk'tions
that many have had in
the
Ivliniflry
of
the Gofpel,
-what
a
turne
fometimes
ha h
the word given
to
their
hurts
inone
halfe
quarter of
an
houre
:
Their
hearts
have
been
feeeI
igafter
vain
and droiiìe things for
their
ha
pinefí;;, andWould
ref}
in them
as
the
onely
good
that
they
would think
thennfeives happy in: and
the
Miniftry
of the Go-
fpel.
bath
darted
in
thole truths unto them that
`have
given
a
a turne to
their hearts:
and
they would
not
have
loft what they
have found
in
the Miniftry of the word, fometimes
in one
Ser-
mon
for
i0000
worlds,
that that
you
prize at
fo
low
a
rate,
they
find
fuch
good in,
as
(I
fay,) they would
not
have
loft for
i
0000
worlds
:
They
have
come fometimes
to
hear
the word
with
carnali, droffie,
vaine,
fenfual
hearts,
looking onely
to
things that
are
here,
bare
and
vild, but
in
attendingupon the
Wo:d,there
hath
been
chore
flashes of
light
let
out
unto
them
that
hath made
them
to
fee
wherein
the true
good
of
a
rational
creature
confifts,
to
fee
what
was
the end
God
made man for,
and the infinite good that
mans foule
is
capable
of, and upon
this
they
have gone
away
with
their
hearts (corning and con-
temning
all
thole
fenfual
delights
and
vanities, that they placed
their
happineffe in
before
:
therefore
learn
to
knowv
what
the
fcope
of the Miniary
of the Gofpel
is,
that
is
the
id
generall
Note.
The
3d
Note
from
the
defign
of Chrift
in
general
is
this,By
what
We
heat Chrift telling
us
bleffedneife
doth confia in, we
may learrie,that
there's
a
great deal
-of
difference between
the
thoughts and
judgement of
God
about,
true
happineffe, and
the
thoughts
and
judgment of the world
:
for
if
fo
be that
you
look
into
all
thofe
8
Beatitudes that
we
have
here,
you will
fee
them
in
fuch
a
quite
croffe
way
to
the judgment
of
the world
as
nothing can be more.
For in
the
fira
place,- Suppofe
the judgement
of
the world
fhould be askt,
who are thofe
that
are
blefled, Certainly, they
would never
have
faid
the poor
was
bleft-;
They
would think
them tobe miferable men
that
are
poore,
I
but
aria
is
of
another