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7
8
Golpel
Xem
f
siori.
Scribes and
Pharifees
who
railed
on
Chrift;
John
9.24.
Saying,
give
glory
to GUd
;but
we
know
this
man
is
a
finner:He
andwered
whether
he be
R
fanner
or
no,
I
know
not
; One
thing
I
know
,that
whereas
I
was
blind,
now
I
fee,
he
it
was
that
opened
my
eyes
thus he
anfiered
their
Ilander
:
and
fo
when
others
clamour
againft
a
Minifter,
and fpeak
evil
of
them,
that
foul
that bath
his eyes
opened, he
will
fay,
I
am fure
God
bath
done
great
things
for
me
by
him
:
he
hath
(hewed
me
the
evil
of
fin,and the
fad
condition
I
was in by
nature,
and he
hath revealed to
me
the
exceeding riches
of
the mercy
and
grace of
God,
and
my
foul
bath
found it fo,
God bath
come
to
my
foul in
his
Preaching
:
Now
fuch
a
Miniftry
as
this
will
certainly
ingage
the
hearts
of
people to them ; 'tis not the man
fo
much
as
Chrift
in
the man,
and
this
is
the end
of our Miniftry,
not to
tell
this
or
that
conceit
or Rory,
but
to
thew
you
the riches
of
the grace
of
God
in
the
pardon
of
fin, and the
Juftifcation
of
you
Souls
through
Chrift
Jefus,
your
Acceptation
and
Reconciliation
through
him,
this
is
the firft Ordinance.
2.
The
Sacraments,
for
what purpofe bath
Chrift
ordained
them
?
the main
end
for which they were ordained
is
for
Seal-
ing
;
in
the
Supper
is
fealed up
Gods
mercy
in
the
pardon of
fin,
Mat.26.2.8.
Chrift
tells his
Difciples,
The Cup
is
the
blood
of
the
New
Teftament
which
is
flied
for
many
for
the
Remiffion
of
Sin
;
as
if
Chrift
had
Paid,
this
is
the great Ordinance to
feal
unto
People
the pardon
of
their
fins
:
Brethren,
the
King does
not
ufe
to
fet his
Broad
Seal
to
trifles,and toyes,
and
fancies,but unto
things of
great
concernment
and
confequence,
they
mull
be
fuch
that
(hall
have the Broad
Seal
:
fo
here,
becaufe
pardon
of
fin is
fuch
a
bleffed
thing,
the
Broad
Seal
of
Heaven
is
ordained
to
Peal
it
;
and
when the
Sacrament
is
adminiftred
rightly,
it
is
no
other
but
the
Broad
Seal
of
Heaven
to
feel
up the
pardon
of
thy
fang&
fo
thould
men and women come
to
receive
the
Sacrament,
they
Mould think
this day
is a
fealing
day;as
in
Courts
of
Juftice they
have
their
fealing-
days,&
'cis
ufually
Paid,
fuch
a
day
is a
fealing-
day
;Ç,,
a
Sacrament
-day
is
a
fealing
-day,
fealing up
to
you the
great
bleffednefs
of
forgivenefs
of
fin
;
a Soul
thinks thus,
I
am
a
poor
wretched
vile
fanner
before
the
Lord,wo
"unto
me
thus
and
*G,c
d
;ç
¡done,
wo
is
me.
But
I
have
heard
of
the
riches
of
Gods