6o6 Chap. 29. tt Expoftioz rspan-rbe Book ; o B. Verf. 2, 3.. to, Some flight the word preacht (as they doe an ordinary (how, er) notconfideting that God fends ir, who never Pent, nor did any thing in vain. And wharfoever the thoughts of vain men are, it will appear at laft, that nor only no whole (bower, but not any one drop of ir,was either feat lor returned in vain. Though menmake no prefent account of it, yet ,God will have an account of it hereafter; he will inquire whether we have been bettered, and made fruitful by it ; he will enquire what we have brought forth, and how much. As the rain and the foow doe not return back without accomplifhing that which God plea- feth, foneither (hall his word lb an affct it (hall have either to convert or to condemn -D it will be a favour of life or of death to every foul that hears it, . And if Sermons be not as fhowers to refrefh, they will make a deluge to overflow. As once the world was overwhelmed with a deluge of water, fo it will(inathis fence) again; and they who are not made fruitful by fhowers of Go- fpel-do6ìrine, (hall be funk, cboaked, and drowned in them. It is fad to perifh for want of this word-rain, or rain of the word but it is muchmore fad to perifh in it and by ir. X OB,
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