any of you should feem to come SHORT of

-it.

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

Romans i. 16. I am not ASHAMED of the GosPEL of CHRIST for it is the Power of GoD unto SALVATION to every one that BELIEV

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Rev. 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 baft REDEEMED us to GOD by thy BLOOD, out of every Kindred, and Tongue, and People, and Nation. Amen. Hallelujah.

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Of the DIVINITY of Chrift Jefus the

MESSIAH, our Redeemer: which is clearly reveal-

ed by the Prophecies in the Old Testament; pro-

claimed by ANGELS and Voices from Heaven; avow-

ed by our Saviour bimfelf; confirmed by Miracles;

acknowledged by DEVILS; PREACHED by the Apostles;

and BELIEVED by the Church in all Ages Pag. I

The Nativity of John the Baptift, and the feveral Cir-

cumftances relating thereto

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HE INTRODUCTION

Chrift's Nativity

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The Circumcifion of Chrift

Chrift fitting in the midft of the Doctors in the Temple,

all that beard him were aftonished at his Under-

ftanding and Answers

The Preaching of John the Baptift

Chrift's Age and Genealogy from Adam

Chrift is baptized of John in Jordan

John's Teftimony of Jefus

His Anfwer to the Jews

Our Saviour's Teftimony of John

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Chrift

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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
Chrift's INSTRUCTIONS to his Difciples
The Preaching of the Gospel 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

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Christ's SERMON on the Mount

Wherein is expreffed the Bleffedness of
1. The Poor and Humble in Spirit
2. Thofe that mourn for their Sins
3. The Meek

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

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6. The Pure in Heart

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7. The Peace-makers

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8. Thofe that are perfecuted for Righteousness fake

ibid.

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Of Alms
Of Prayer
Of Fafting

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of Heavenly-mindedness, and againft Covetousness and

anxious Cares

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Against rash Judging

Holy Things not to be expofed to the Contempt of the

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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 Christ Jefus to be the Redeemer of the World. And of the Love of Chrift, 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

Difpoffeffing of Devils

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

Chrift paffeth into the Country of the Gergefenes, rebuketh the Winds, &c. 107

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

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A dumb Man poffeffed of a Devil is healed 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 Blessedness of those that bear the Word of God and keep it, and the Fudgment 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

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

Peter's Wife's Mother is healed of a Fever

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Chrift went about all Galilee, preaching the Gospel,
and healing all manner of Difeafes
He cureth a Man of the Palfy

A Man that had a withered Hand is healed on the

Sabbath Day

A Leper healed in Galilee
A Leper healed

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How the LEPROSY of SIN is healed and purified ibid. Christ 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 bealed on the Sabbath Day
In the Pharifee's Hoafe, He heals one of the Dropfy
on the Sabbath Day
ibid.

Jefus on the Sabbath Day cures him that had an Infirmi-
ty Thirty eight Tears, and lay at the Pool of Bethesda.
At which the Jews being enraged, Jefus Avows his
DEITY, that all Judgment was committed to him, and
that whosoever BELIEVED on him fhould have EVER-
LASTING LIFE; and that he was the promised Messiah,
of whom Mofes wrote
JOHN VI. Chrift feedeth Five thousand; walks upon
the Sea, and commands the Winds and the Waves to
be ftill. Many are healed by the Touch of his Gar-
ment. 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 Chrift,

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are inftructed not to LABOUR only for the Meat that perifbeth, but chiefly for that SPIRITUAL Food of DiVINE GRACE, which is compared to the Manna with which the Ifraelites were for forty Tears fubfifted in the Wilderness He feedeth Four thousand with feven Loaves

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