The Mystery of godliness, consider'd in lxisermons : wherein the deity of Christ is prov'd upon no other evidence than the Word of God, and with no other view than for the salvation of men . liali notopen the charge at prefent. Thofe of you thathave lookd into their books will at the firft foundof thefe particulars know that they are eafily I will take up no more of your time nowthan to give you this one refledion upon what youhave heard. That If there is a defign to aflault the firfl article ofyour religion, if thefe are the arguments, and thefethe methods of thofe that are in it, w
The Mystery of godliness, consider'd in lxisermons : wherein the deity of Christ is prov'd upon no other evidence than the Word of God, and with no other view than for the salvation of men . liali notopen the charge at prefent. Thofe of you thathave lookd into their books will at the firft foundof thefe particulars know that they are eafily I will take up no more of your time nowthan to give you this one refledion upon what youhave heard. That If there is a defign to aflault the firfl article ofyour religion, if thefe are the arguments, and thefethe methods of thofe that are in it, what need haveyou to be eftablifhd I The war has fpread it felftar and near; he muft be a ftranger in Ifrael thatknows not thefe things. Do therefore, as they woulddo, who live in an infeded place ; get a preferva-live by letting the word of God dwell richly in you,and above all, defire the protedion of that Spiritwho c^n leadyou into the way of all trtsth. Let tiiofethat fear the Lord fpeak often one to another ;Bffild up one another in your mofl holy faith, that *12,may be comforted together with yon by the mutualfvibb9th ofyoH and me^ E e e i SERMON 788 7^1? Hypocrifie of the. SERMON LV. HAT thefe are the ways they take tofhew their charity and freethinking isnotorious to every one who reads whatthey have writ. It would be as ufelefs as itis voluminous, to give you all the exam-ples that their books pour in upon us of fuch anunfairnefs in argument and hypocrifie in fliall briefly take notice of their pradice, andiliew you the difcord there is between the methodsof this party, and thofe that the God of truth hasdirefted us to, in proclaiming his Gofpel. The1 Cor. vi. Apoftles gave no ojfence left the miniftry ftwnld heS^^^Jhlamed, but in all things approved themfelves as theminifters of Gody hy purenefsy hj knowledge^ by the holy Ghofty by love unfeigned; by the word of truth, bythe power of God, Where they had been pamefullyentreated^ they were fiill bold in Go
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