if RELIGION_. I2) tranftnitting the fatne to the ·Ages to -come, by a corifinnatorySeal and Tefti– Jnony ·thereto. I I. 'ro reckon ourfelves alfo rind~r fotne more than ordinary ·call this I)ay, (each ~n their prefent Capacity ar1ciSt-a– tion,) to appear for the Credit ,of the Truth, a1id ften1 fo vifible and in1p~tuous .aTide, as is now running qf Diflruft, and ·of a difcreditable Faintnefs; for it\nra:Ybe faid, never was the Cl)urch und '~r ~}~ New Teftatnent, fo remarkably held un– der inch a Trial, as that \\'herein the _ Lord did 1)rove the Church ·· of lfrael, Nuntb. xiv. or had a n1ore evident Re.. fe!nblance thereto, in the fatne Circu1n– fl:a11_ces as in this 'Day, if they were fer~,' oqflv pondered; ,As, r: How, in , the fatne J\~anner, fuch a falfe and evil Report is too vifibl y raifecl upon the hleft Ways of the IJord, to di!- • courage and -faint the Spirits of -his People, · .as was the_n by the Spies, that there \Vere infuperable Difficultie~ in the \Va')r of the . Promife, ·. byReafon of the A~ta~inzs, a~1d of their walled Cit.ies, rand did thus op.. 11ofe the Credit of S.enfe, to all thefe .i\f. furances which God had given)to thei r FAith. . 11. ·That
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