How to come to be Bleff"ed, be happy : Chrifl is come from the bofome of the Father to reveal unto mankind thofe eternal( counfels of the Father a- bout mans Tall end. Man line the fal would never have come to have known wherein his la(i end conlifls, 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, â the poore and low things wherein the children ofmen place their happineffe in, that know not Jefus Chrift, but are fIran- gers to Jefus Chrifl ; When Chria comes to be revealed, the thoughts and hearts of men are railed and inlarged, they lookeafter happineffe in another mariner then, then formerly they did : O let us blefle God for Jefus Chrill by whom we come to -know how we may be happy : that is, wherein our I Äa end confias, that high good that mans nature is made capable of by God. 2d y, It is the end & fcope of the Minidry to fhew to people how they may come to he bleffed ;_For this Sermon was prea- ched efpecially to the Apodles when they had their Commif- Gon, as I opened the Lail day. Now in that Chi iii fpeakes fo much of blefíedneffe to them, it was to prepare them to go e and Preach it to the world : Oh 'cis the Minidry of the word that flames to men how they may come to be happy : This is all the hurt it will do you,to (hew you how you may be bleffed- for ever : Hów poor and miferable are thofe people that live without the Miniflry of the Word ? What poor things doe they plant their happineffe in -? When you come to attend the Miniílry of the Gofpel, you muff come to attend_ it as a meffage from God, to- (hew you howyou, may be happy for ever : It's called the Gofpel that they Preach ; good tidings: Ir brings tidings to you from heaven how thofe fouls and bodyes Of yours-may come to be eternally happy : Come with-fuch a difpofition to the Minifiry of the word : Thore therefore who forfake the Minidry of the word forfake their ownmercy, the way that might Phew them to be happy : Oh how vild are mens hearts to prize it at no higher a rate :then nof} doe, fo as ye cannot think it worth the enduring a lit le' cold in -a morning to come to attend upon. the Minidry that is. appointegl
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