Discourses on the miracles and parables of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ .. . nounce all felf-efteem, felf-feeking andfelf-will, and let it be your meat anddrink to do your heavenly Fathers will:your chief and conftant care, to keep agood confcience, void of offence towardsGod and towards man ; that fo you maybe perfected in love, and fo poffefs thatheavenly reft and peace which furpaffethall underftanding ; which Chrijl here pro-mifeth to All who will come to him for it,and which you may All of confequence ob-tain,, for you All have it in your power, fothat if you receive it not,
Discourses on the miracles and parables of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ .. . nounce all felf-efteem, felf-feeking andfelf-will, and let it be your meat anddrink to do your heavenly Fathers will:your chief and conftant care, to keep agood confcience, void of offence towardsGod and towards man ; that fo you maybe perfected in love, and fo poffefs thatheavenly reft and peace which furpaffethall underftanding ; which Chrijl here pro-mifeth to All who will come to him for it,and which you may All of confequence ob-tain,, for you All have it in your power, fothat if you receive it not, it will be whollyyour own faults,—and which when once ob- The Eafinefs of Chr i stys Yoke. 47obtained, you will find to be indeed thepearl of great price, and think the fale ofall you have but fmall to give in purchafeof it. That therefore we may one, and all ofus, fo come to Chrijl> fo take his yokeupon us and learn of him, as to pro-cure this blefled and everlafting reft,God of his infinite mercy grant throthe merits of the fame Jefus Chrijl, hisSon, our Lord and Saviour. DIS. ft DISCOURSE IL The Cleaning of the Leper, Being the Subftance of Two Sermons; PART I. St. Matthew viii. i-— 4. When he was come down from the mountain,great multitudes followed him. And behold there came a Leper and wor-flipped him, faying. Lord, if thai wilt, thoucanjl make me clean. And Jefus put forthhis hand, and touched him, faying, I will, bethou clean. And immediately his leprofy wascleanfed. And Jefus faith unto him, See thoutell no man, but go thy way, flew thy [elf to thepriefl, and offer the gift that Mofes command-ed, for a teftimony unto them. F)OOSC*5E are told by this Evangeliftw w S chap. iv. ver. 23. that Jefus went>$( & about all Galilee teaching in their \LWiykM fyhagogues, and preaching the gofpel of the kingdom, and healing all manner ofD fchiefs, 50 The Cleanfing of the , and all manner of difeafe among thepeople. Having given therefore in the fore-g
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