Bleff ed are they_that make peace bet wean man and God. God hash reveal'd in his Wardconcerning the Glorious work of Reconciliation of (inners to himfelfe. Thus we should b4 pleading One with another, and praying one for another, and labouring to Inflru& -one another to be at peace with God, O blefled is that -man or woman that 'bath in a gracious, way laboured to draw any to be at.. peace with God, and whom God bath bleffed in thefe endeavours ; bath God brought thy heart to be at peace with him, and to delire that' others might be brought in to love the w.ayes of God : O blefled that ever thouwert borne to be an Inftrument of fo great a good, if it be but to bring in one foule tó be at peace with God ; fo that God bath one enemy in the world leffe through thy meaner and endeavours; Thou mayelt bleffe God, I fay, that ever thou had'ft a beeing that cantt have this Comfort to thy foule, though I am a poore wretch my felfe, and was a long time an enemy to God, yet the Lord did not onely bring my foule tt+ be at peace with him, but made me an Inftrument to bring o- thers to be at peace with him likewife, fo that the Lord bath .oft enemy leffe in the world through my endeavours, O it's that that would'rejcyce thy foule. Bleffed art thou that haft a hand in this work, for it is the'greateft work that ever took up the heart of God from all Eternity, of all the works that ever were in the heart of God from Eternity, the work of Recon- ciling foules to himfelfe was the greatelt work of all, and of all the things that God expects Glory from unto all Eternity, the work of Reconciling foules to himfelfe is the thing that God makes account to have the greateft glory from that ever he fhall have to all Eternity: Now then if God than imploy thee to be Inllrumentall in fo great a work as this is, bleffed art thou that ever thou did°ff live in the world_ That man is not blelled that is great in the world, or bath fine cloaths, but that's the man that is a bleffed man, that the Lord makes In ftrumentall for the furtherance of that work; for diet abóve all things his heart is molt in ; Betides, we might fpe ak of the' great evills thatthou deliverelt the foule .of thy Brother from, and the great good that thou bringelttto the foule of thy Bra, ther:And the great blelling that thy Brothers foule does bleffe M m m thee
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