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FOR THE

HEAVY-LADEN:

PROMISED

By our only Lord and Saviour

JESUS CHRIST

TO ALL

SINCERE BELIEVERS,

Practically Discoursed upon.

By CLEMENT ELIS,
Rector of Kirkby, in Nottinghamshire.
Author of Christianity in short.

HEBR. iv. 1. Let us therefore fear, left a Promise
being left us of entering into his Rest, any of you
should feem to come short of it.

LONDON;

Printed by J. FULLER, Bookseller, in Blow-
bladder-street, Cheapfide; and S. NEALE,
Bookseller, in Chatham. M.DCC.LVI.

Y

• FEB 16

1928

OXFORD

1

TO THE

READERS.

WHEN

HEN the charitable Samaritan had found the poor Man lying wounded by the Way-fide, and ready to die for want of present Help: his Compaffion might poffibly have come too late, had it staid for Ceremony. Had be spent his Breath in Complements, and trifled away the Time to usher in his Kindness with many fine Words; had he stood excusing his Boldness or bis too much Officiousness, apologizing for his Weakness, or with a great deal of Rhetorick, courting the poor dying Soul to accept of Life: However, we (who know better how to talk than to do good) might now call him Modish, He that so much needed bis Help, would have thought him idle and impertinent, and more a Courtier, than

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