265 T H E CARELESSE MERCHANT, OR THE WOFUL LOSSE OF THE PRECIOUS S O U L. SERMON XXII. Math. i6: 2.6. What is a man profited, ifhefballgain theshale morld,ernd life hisfoul I-ie Patriarch Jacob in his viuon at Bethel,_faw the Angels of God afcending anddefcending, Gen. aS. So from the thir- ` teenth verleof this Chapter,we have the Difciples ofatilt I afcending and defcending. For firft their general fpeaker Simon Teter, had madeanotableconfefiìon ofour Saviours Divin ty , and had received for the further incouraggétnent of himfelf and his brethren, fuch an excellent teftimony from ourSaviour, that theAngels of heaven might behold, obferve, and ;tnbracc Bleffedart thou Simon Bar-jor a, for flefh and blood bath not revealed tbiá to thee, but myfather which is in heaven : and Ifay thou art Peter, amidon-thisrocknnllIbuild myChurch, and the gatesofbellfball not yrevailagainf it. Whichwords were not onlyappropriate to him, (they werefpoken tohint) but they were common to all the Apofties t Foras Origen argues, Qhallwethink that the gates of hell prevailed not again(t'Peter, butdid againft the rdh 'Therefore that which was laid to him, was Paid to all, and beingfuels a glorious commendation ; behold the Angelsahcead. - M sn But Origets,
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