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11. Let us LABOUR therefore to ENTER into that REST, left any Man FALL after the fame Example of UNBELIEF.

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Rer. v. 9, 13. BLESSING and HONOUR, and GLORY, and POWER be unto Him that fitteth upon the THRONE, and unto the LAMB for ever and ever: For thou waft SLAIN, and haft REDEEMED us to GOD by thy BLOOD, out of every Kindred, and Tongue, and People, and Nation. Amen. Hallelujah.

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Chrift is tempted by the Devil: To which is annexed, the TEMPTATIONS that Believers are subject to 33 The Calling of the Disciples

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The Preaching of the Gofpel in Galilee by our Saviour 43
The Doctrine of Repentance and Faith

I. Of Repentance, and its Effects
II. Of Faith, its Nature and Effects

Christ's SERMON on the Mount

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1. The Poor and Humble in Spirit

2. Thofe that mourn for their Sins

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4. Thofe that bunger and thirst after Righteousness 59 5. Thofe that are merciful

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Of falfe Prophets and Teachers Christ's Difcourfe with Nicodemus, of the Neceffity of being BORN again by the SANCTIFYING and enlightning Influences of the HOLY GHOST. To which is annexed, The Defcription of the NEW COVENANT, or Covenant of Grace in the Old and New Teftament Of the infinite MERCY of God, in giving his only Son Chrift Jefus to be the Redeemer of the World. And of the Love of Christ, in becoming the Saviour of

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all that believe in him, and obey his Commands 94 Christ comes into Judea, where he baptizes. John the Baptift declares to the Jews, that Jefus was the Meffiak that came down from Heaven

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John the Baptift's Imprisonment by Herod, and is bebeaded by his Order

Herod's Opinion of Chrift

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The MIRACLES wrought by our Saviour. From whence, in many Inftances, is reprefented the much greater Things that should be effected upon the Souls of thofe that BELIEVE in him Water turned into Wine

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How BELIEVERS are delivered from the Snares and Power of the DEVIL

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Chrift paffeth into the Country of the Gergefenes, rebuketh the Winds, &c.

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He by his Word having allayed the Winds and Waves,. heals the Poffeffed of Devils in the Country of the Gergefenes

A dumb Man poffeffed of a Devil is healed

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Chrift cafteth a Devil out of a lunatick Man, which the Difciples could not caft out

ibid. He cafts out a Devil, and confirms it to be done by a DIVINE POWER

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Our Saviour's Difcourfe of the Bleffedness of those that bear the Word of God and keep it, and the Judgment that should come upon the impenitent, and those that reject the LIGHT of the GOSPEL The Daughter of the Woman of Canaan vexed with a Devil, is healed

Healing all manner of Sickneffes and Difeafes
Chrift beals the Ruler's Son

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Christ went about all Galilee, preaching the Gospel, and healing all manner of Difeafes

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A Man that had a withered Hand is healed on the
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How the LEPROSY of SIN is healed and purified ibid. Chrift goes through Samaria into Galilee, and healeth ten Lepers by the Way

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The Centurion in Capernaum intercedes for his Servant, that he might be cured of the Palfy 123 Chrift returns to the Sea of Galilee, and cures one that was deaf and dumb

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An infirm Woman healed on the Sabbath Day
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ibid. Jefus on the Sabbath Day cures him that had an Infirmity Thirty eight Tears, and lay at the Pool of Bethesda. At which the Jews being enraged, Jefus Avows bis DEITY, that all Judgment was committed to him, and that whofoever BELIEVED on him should have EVERLASTING LIFE; and that he was the promifed Meffiah, of whom Mofes wrote JOHN IN VI. Chrift feedeth Five thoufand; walks upon the Sea, and commands the Winds and the Waves to be ftill. Many are healed by the Touch of his Garment. He reproveth the fleshly Hearers of his Word; and declareth bimfelf to be the BREAD of LIFE 130 The People that were miraculously fed, following Christ, are inftructed not to LABOUR only for the Meat that perifbeth, but chiefly for that SPIRITUAL Food of DVINE GRACE, which is compared to the Manna with which the Ifraelites were for forty Tears fubfifted in the Wilderness

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