4 ?H 4 1 he L,Inceee envert. There is a word ofGod, by reafon, againft all Atheifts God. under Heaven. Hat thou not thought fome- -irY"Ni times at a Sermon, the Minifter hath fpoken ito none but thee, and that force or other bath 'told the Minifter what thou haft faid, what thou haft done, what thou haft thought ? now that word which tells thee the thoughts of thy heart , can be nothing elfe but the word of an all-feeing God, that fearcheth the heart. it is the I Again , that word which quickeneth the Nord of God that dead, is certainly Gods word,but the word of quickens God ordinarily preached, quickeneth the dead, Lae dead. it maketh the blind to fee, the dumb to fpeak, the deaf to hear, the lame to walk, thofe that never felt their fins to load them, to mourn, thofe that never could pray, to breathout unutterable groans and flails for their fins. The third Thirdly ,From the children 6(R-wen of God: ci rcur. to For we may read in mens foreheads, as foon rove a ever they are born,the frntence ofdeachond we may fee by mens lives what hellifh hearts they have. Now there is a time that fome of this monflrous broad ofmen are quite chang ed, and made all new ; they havenew minds, new opinions, newderires, new joys,new for- rows, i.ew fpeeches, new prayers, new lives, and fuel a difference there is betwixt thefe and Id others, that they are hated by others, who loved themwell while they loved their fins:and whence came this flrange change ? Is it from themfelves ? No ; for they hated this new life, and thefe new men once themfelves Is i becaufe they would be credited thereby ? No, it Job 3. 3.
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