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SERMON X.

The Worship of God in the Beauty of Holi nefs explain'd and enforc❜d.

P. 183.

SERMONS XI. XII.

The Duty of mutual Love explain'd and en-
P. 204. 226.

forc'd.

SERMONS XIII. XIV. The happy Confequences of Afflictions to fincere Chriftians. P. 240. 254

SERMON XV.

The Treatment which Perfons in Liftress meet with from their Acquaintance and Enemies confidered and diffuaded from. P. 267.

SERMON XVI

The Advantages of cafting our Bread upon the Waters... P. 289.

A BRIEF ENQUIRY into the Causes why the Word Preach'd doth not Profit, together with a Confideration of the Folly and Danger of being influenc'd by them.

P. 302.

SERMON

SERMON I.

1 John iv. 9, 10, II.

In this was manifefted the Love of God towards us, because that God fent his only begotten Son into the World, that we might live thro' him.

Herein is Love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and fent his Son to be the Propitiation for our Sins. Beloved, if God fo loved us, we ought alo to love one another.

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A prehenfible, fo his Works are

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finding out: EVERY Operation of his Hands is inexpreffibly wonderful; and the most inconfiderable of his Doings will, if attentively view'd, be very marvellous in our Eyes. But I believe, there is not any can juftly be thought more ftrange, than his effecting the Incarnation

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of his only begotten Son: Which is a Work of fuch a myfterious Nature, as raifes the Curiofity a of Angels to pry into it; and allows not the most enlarged of human Capacities fully to understand it. Though we put our intellectual Faculties upon the utmoft Stretch, we fhall ftill behold this Mystery as through à Glafs, darkly; all our Knowledge of it will be but in Part: And to think that we can by fearching find it out to Perfection, is Vanity of Vanities, and nothing but Vanity.

Alas! the corruptible body prefeth down the Soul; and the earthly Tabernacle weigbeth down the Mind that mufeth upon many things, fo that imperfect and uncertain is our Acquaintance even with the things that are of the Earth: How much more doubtful and imperfect muft our Learning then be, in the things which are from Heaven? We are very much in the dark as to the Union of our Souls and Bodies: We cannot give a fure and fatisfactory Account, how two fuch different Beings as Spirit and Matter influence one another in their several Motions, as Experience certifies they do: What abfurd Arrogance then muft it be, to pretend to

a 1 Pet. i. 12.

conceive

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