Discourses on the miracles and parables of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ .. . , and implant in our hearts, by thygrace, all the fruits of the blefled take thofe hearts into thine own gui-dance and government; enable them tokeep thy commandments, and fo fulfil thyholy promife of coming with thy fatherto dwell therein! And feeing we are un-worthy through our manifold fins and of-fences even to prefent one prayer untothee, we entreat thee to pardon the finsof thefe our beft, though raoft imperfectfervices, to deal not with us, according to ourmerits, but thine own mercies ;
Discourses on the miracles and parables of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ .. . , and implant in our hearts, by thygrace, all the fruits of the blefled take thofe hearts into thine own gui-dance and government; enable them tokeep thy commandments, and fo fulfil thyholy promife of coming with thy fatherto dwell therein! And feeing we are un-worthy through our manifold fins and of-fences even to prefent one prayer untothee, we entreat thee to pardon the finsof thefe our beft, though raoft imperfectfervices, to deal not with us, according to ourmerits, but thine own mercies ; and gra-cioufly looking upon us, with an eye offatherly love and pity, we befeech thee inall our dangers and neceflities to firetchforth thy right hand, to help and defendus — that protected by thy power and faved no The Cleanfing of the by thy mercy here, we may rejoiceforever hereafter, in thy love and praife!To whom with the Father, and the HolyGhoft, three perfons, and one God, beafcribed all power and glory in the church,throughout all ages, world without D IS. (in) DISCOURSE III. On the good Centurion. Matthew viii. 13 And Jefus /aid unto the Centurion, Go thyway, and as thou had believed, Jo b,done unto thee. And his fervaut Wihealed in the felj-fame hour. py£WfC*ESUS having finifhed his fer-w j w mon on the mount, as foon as^^\&\*2S ^e came down from thence,to mew that his words anddoctrine pertained both to the Jews andGentiles, performed two miracles : the one,for a Jew, a Leper, who came to him, the other for ti2 On the good Centurion. for a Gentile, a Centurion, or Roman Cap-tain, who was ftationed at Capernaum. Afervant of this Centurion, who was iiedfi tohim, whofe virtue and honefty, obedienceand induflry made him very valuable * inthe eyes of his matter, lay at home fick ofthe palfey, in the moft grievous ftage ofthe difeafe, tormented with infufferablepains -f and ready to die. The Centurion,hearing of Jefus £ (whofe fame began Howto
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