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Manna,
4
type
of
Chrift.'
the
Tabernacle
men brought
too
much,
but
after
tooke
it
away
as
fait
againe.
tobn
was a
burning
and
Jhinin,
Ioh.5.3ç.
light,
and
they
re1®yced
in
his
light,
but
it was but
for
a
feafon:and
few
fhining
lights
but
find
it
fo.The
Galatians
at
firft
received
Paul
as
an
Angell,
but foone
revolted
from
him.
What
flocking and
thronging was there after
Chrifts
dotrine
and miracles,that
the
kingdome
ofGod
fuffered
violence,but
foone
they
had enough
of
him,
and
in
fhort time
did
tumult
as
fait againft
him
?
The like
was obferved
in
our
owne
land;at
the
firfft
falling
of
this
manna,and
beginnings
of
the Gofpell:men
were
carnet
,
glad,
joyfull,forward:
then
was
a
fweet
time
of
the hap-
py welcome
of
this
Manna
;happy was
hee could get
his
Gomer
first
and
fuliefl:
But
now what
voices heare
wee
other
then
of
the
ungracious
1
fraclites
?
Oh our
foules
are
dryed
up
with
this manna,here
is
nothing,but manna:
fo much preaching,
fo many
Sermons, and
it
was
better
with
the world iniEgypt,befcre
all
this preaching!
Nitul
whereas
our
fathers would
hive
ridden
far
to
a
Sermon,
wee, their
lazic
off-fpring,
will
fcarce
íleppe over
our
threfholds.
Let
us
confider
here for our incitement,
T.
how
ì
Motives.
hard
it
is
to
begin
weli,but
harder
to
hold
out
;
and
not
Ì
holding out
we
lofe
all
oar
labour.
2.
that
manna
is
f
as
fweet
as
ever, though
wee
fee
not
our
owne
neede
,
which
if
we
didfee,
wee would
be
no
more
weary
of
Gods
word were it
daily preached,
then
wee
are
ofour
bread
we
daily
Bate.
V
1.
We
mutt
be
fo far
from wearineffe,
as
that we
6.
mutt
highly efteeme
this true
Manna,as
the fweeteft
gift
Prize
and mog-
that ever
God
gave from
heaven,
and
never forget
fo
nify this Mart.
miraculous
a
mercy.
That
Ifrael
might
not forget
Gods
na.
extraordinary
mercy
in
this
type,
they
mutt
for
ever
keeps
a
pot
ofManna;which was
preferved
fo
long
as
the
Temple
flood
for
many
hundred
yeeres. And
that wee
might not forgetthis
mercy_iu
the
true
manna,
heellath
xnd