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11. Let us LABOUR therefore to ENTER into that REST, left any Man FALL after the fame Example of UNBELIEF.

Romans i. 16. I am not ASHAMED of the GosPEL of CHRIST: for it is the POWER of GOD unto SALVATION to every one that BELIEV

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Rev. v. 9, 13. BLESSING and HONOUR, and GLORY, and Power be unto Him that fitteth upon the Throne, and unto the LAMB for ever and ever: For thou wast SLAIN, and haft REDEEMED us to GOD by thy BLOOD, out of every Kindred, and Tongue, and People, and Nation. Amen. Hallelujah.

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Christ is tempted by the Devil : To which is annexed,

the TEMPTATIONs that Believers are subject to 33

The Calling of the Disciples

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Christ's INSTRUCTIONS to his Disciples

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The Preaching of the Gospel in Galilee by our Saviour 43

The Doctrine of Repentance and Faith

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I. Of Repentance, and its Effects

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II. Of Faith, its Nature and Effects

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Chrift's SERMON on the Mount

Wherein is expressed the Blessedness of

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1. The Poor and Humble in Spirit

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2. Those that mourn for their Sins

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3. The Meek

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4. Those that hunger and thirst after Righteousness 59

5. Those that are merciful

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6. The Pure in Heart

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7. The Peace-makers

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8. Those that are perfecuted for Righteousness sake

ibid.

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Holy Things not to be exposed to the Contempt of the

Profane

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Of false Prophets and Teachers

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Chrift's Discourse with Nicodemus, of the Neceffity of being BORN again by the SANCTIFYING and enlightning Influences of the HOLY GHOST. To which is annexed, The Description of the NEW COVENANT, or Covenant of Grace in the Old and New Testament Of the infinite MERCY of God, in giving his only Son Christ Jesus to be the Redeemer of the World. And of the Love of Christ, in becoming the Saviour of

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all that believe in him, and obey his Commands 94

Christ comes into Judea, where he baptizes. John the Baptist declares to the Jews, that Jesus was the Meffiak that came down from Heaven

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John the Baptist's Imprisonment by Herod, and is be

beaded by his Order

Herod's Opinion of Chrift

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The MIRACLES wrought by our Saviour. From whence, in many Instances, is represented the much greater Things that should be effected upon the SOULS of those that BELIEVE in bim

Water turned into Wine

Difpoffefsing of Devils

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ibid.

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HOW BELIEVERS are delivered from the Snares and Power of the DEVIL

ibid.

Christ passeth into the Country of the Gergesenes, rebuketh the Winds, &c.

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He by his Word having allayed the Winds and Waves,. heals the Poffefsed of Devils in the Country of the

Gergesenes

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A dumb Man possessed of a Devil is healed

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Chrift cafteth a Devil out of a lunatick Man, which the Disciples could not cast out

ibid.

He cafts out a Devil, and confirms it to be done by

a DIVINE POWER

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Our Saviour's Discourse of the Blessedness of those that bear the Word of God and keep it, and the Judgment that should come upon the impenitent, and those that reject the LIGHT of the GOSPEL

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The Daughter of the Woman of Canaan vexed with a

Devil, is healed

Healing all manner of Sicknesses and Diseases
Chrift heals the Ruler's Son

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Peter's Wife's Mother is healed of a Fever

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Divers fick Persons healed

ibid.

Chrift went about all Galilee, preaching the Gospel,

and healing all manner of Diseases

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He cureth a Man of the Palsy

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A Man that had a withered Hand is bealed on the

Sabbath Day

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A Leper healed in Galilee

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A Leper healed

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How the LEPROSY of SIN is healed and purified ibid.
Christ goes through Samaria into Galilee, and healeth

ten Lepers by the Way

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The Centurion in Capernaum intercedes for his Ser-
vant, that he might be cured of the Palsy
Christ returns to the Sea of Galilee, and cures one that
was deaf and dumb

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An infirm Woman healed on the Sabbath Day
In the Pharisee's House, He heals one of the Dropsy
ibid.

on the Sabbath Day

Jesus on the Sabbath Day cures him that had an Infirmity Thirty eight Tears, and lay at the Pool of Bethesda. At which the Jews being enraged, Jesus avows his DEITY, that all fudgment was committed to him, and that whosoever BELIEVED on him should have EVERLASTING LIFE; and that he was the promised Messiah, of whom Mofes wrote

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JOHN VI. Christ feedeth Five thousand; walks upon the Sea, and commands the Winds and the Waves to be still. Many are healed by the Touch of his Garment. He reproveth the fleshly Hearers of his Word; and declareth bimself to be the BREAD of LIFE 130 The People that were miraculously fed, following Chrift, are instructed not to LABOUR only for the Meat that perisbeth, but chiefly for that SPIRITUAL Food of DIVINE GRACE, which is compared to the Manna with which the Ifraelites were for forty Tears subsisted in the Wilderness

He feedeth Four thousand with seven Loaves

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