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and Beloved, Worthy and Acceptable Guests at the Lord's Table, you must not think to recommend your felves by the artificial Tricks of Hypocrifie and Diffimulation, but entirely deveft your felves of this Hellish Clothing, and lay aside all Malice, and all Guile, and Hypo. crifies, and Envies, and all Evilfpeakings, Forbearing one another, and Forgiving one another, (if any of you have a Quarrel againft another) even as God for Chrift's fake hath forgiven you. Laftly, We must evidence the fincerity of our Love, not only by Forgiving, but by Giving too. We must remember the Hardships, Streights, and Difficulties of the Poor and Indigent, and according to our Abilities, relieve and affift them, it being infinitely unreasonable that we fhould shut up our Bowels of Compaffion from our Brethren, when all the Treasures of the Divine Goodnefs are open'd to us, especially fince our Gracious Lord has promis'd, That if we caft our Bread upon these Waters, we shall most certainly find it after many Days.

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Now to God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghoft, three Perfons and one moft Glorious and Gracious Lord God, be afcrib'd (as is most due) all Honour, Glory, Power, Might, Majefty, Dominion, and Thanksgiving for evermore.

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SERMON IX.

EPHES. 4. 8.

When be afcended up on high, he led
Captivity Captive, and gave Gifts

unto Men.

HE whole Race of the Sun of Righ

TH teousness, was nothing else but one

glorious display of his infinite Mercy and Power. He arose in fuch Majefty upon our Horizon, as not only commanded the Doxologies of the Angels, the Adoration of the Eastern Magi, and the Proftration of the a Idols of Egypt; a vid. Euf but fo amaz'd likewife, fo affrighted de Demonf the Prince of Darkness, that this Beaft Ev. lib. of Prey immediately got him away, Athenaf. and hid himself clofe in his Den. most famous Oracles in the World accordingly doom'd to filence: Devil either not replying at all to P 2

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b Confulas Porphyrium περὶ τῆς ἐκ Λογίων

poropias. Et Eufeb. de præpar. Ev. lib. 5. cap. 16.

earnest Addreffes and most intenfe and vehement Applications of his admiring Votaries; or plainly b acknowledging, that the bright Glory of his Oracles was entring into an everlasting Eclipfe, because 'Avaтoλ, the Day-fpring, the Man, whofe Name Zach. 6. is the c East, the Origen and Fountain of all Light and Glory appear'd to him with infupportable Splendor from on High, and vifited the World. There is dVid.Suid. a Hebrew Child, dfays he, to the imin Aug. & cedren in Portunate Roman Emperor, who, tho' Synopf. veil'd under the Infirmities of Humane Hiftor.

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Nature, is King of the Bleffed Gods, that commands me to leave thefe Dwellings, and to return to Hell. He afterwards moft fhamefully foil'd this roaring Lyon in his most vigorous En counters in the Wilderness, upon the high Mountain, upon the pinacle of the Temple, and wherever elfe he prefum'd to grapple with the Lamb of God. Nay, he hunted him like a Par tridge upon the tops of the Mountains, drove him with ineffable Shame and Contempt out of the Bodies he had poffefs'd, frequently compelling him to roar out, even at a distance, and with

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