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Fervency of our Prayers be but Equal to the Greatnefs of our Wants; Our Prayers will Ever be Graciously received, and our Wants Abundantly Supplied.

There are many other Particulars, nearly relating to the Argument before us; which cannot be taken into the Narrow compafs of this Difcourfe. The Time will not allow me to enlarge the Obfervations and Directions, which I have been preffing upon you, as Neceffary to your Edification; as the best Testimonies I can give of my Gratitude, for your Kind Acceptance and Encouragement of my Imperfect Labours amongst you; and as the Effects of my Earneft Defire, that You may be ever Truly mindful of the Conditions, and Faithful in using the Means of Your Salvation, under the two General Heads of Evangelical Duty, Faith and Obedience; Which I have, from the many Years of my Duty and Ministry in this Place, ftudied to Represent and Enforce, under the Many Particulars contain'd in Them, for Your Improvement in Spiritual Wisdom and Understanding.

I have frequently used my utmoft Endeavours,

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deavours, and Weak indeed have those endeavours been, to give you a Juft Sense of the Great Articles of Faith, to Establish and Confirm you in the Stedfaft Belief of them, and to guard you against the Fallacious Arguments, and Plaufible Infinuations of Unbelievers. But the PraEtical Duties of Religion have, much more Frequently, been the Subjects of my Difcourfes; because these Duties are branch'd out into Greater Numbers and Varieties, than the Objects of Faith are; and the Temptations to Violate or Neglect them, more Numerous too; Snares ever furrounding us Without, and our own Hearts ever ready to betray us Within; every Circumftance of Life being attended with Peculiar Difficulties, and almost every Hour of Life bringing along with it Fresh Trials and Hazards: And yet, if amidst all these Multiplicities of Duties and Dangers, we should fail of performing Sincere and Universal Obedience, Faith cannot fave us.

But I cannot close my Ministrations to you, without offering up my Humble and Earnest Prayer to God, that he may graciously

ously Pardon the Imperfections attending them; and, that the Weakneffes and Defects of my Inftructions and Exhortations, offer'd to You, may be fupplied by the All-fufficient Influences of the Holy Spirit upon You, guiding you into all Truth, Defending you against all Dangers and Temptations, and Adorning you with all Christian Graces; that You may be Victorious in your Spiritual Warfare, and finally attain to the Everlafting Mansions of the Bleffed Above. And the very God of Peace Sanctifie you wholly: And I pray God, your whole fpirit and foul and body be preferved blamelefs unto the Coming of our Lord Jefus

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To Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft, three Perfons and One God, be afcribed all Honour and Praife, and Thankf giving, now henceforth and for e

vermore.

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SERMON

SERMON XII.

The Omnipresence of God.

Being the laft Sermon the AUTHOR Preach'd; and Publish'd by his Direction.

JER. XXIII. Part of the 24th Verse. Do not I fill Heaven and Earth, faith the Lord?

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HESE Words denote one of the Peculiar, Incommunicable Attributes of God; And if it were not utterly Inconfiftent with Infinity, to admit of Degrees, This Excellency in the Divine Nature, at least excepting Eternity, might feem the most Surprizing and Tranfcendent of Any. There are in the Holy Angels, and in Holy Men too, men Influenced and Governed by the Divine Spirit, fair Images of the Veracity, the Wisdom, the Good

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mes, the Mercy, and the Compaffion of God; which yet are all Infinite in Him: The vaft measures of Power which are imparted to fome Creatures, especially to the Angelick Hoft, are some Reprefentation of Omnipotence; That Steddinefs of Soul, which is the Portion of Just men made Perfect, looks a little like the Immutability of God: But in All the Ranks and orders of Creatures there is fcarce any Semblance of Immenfity or Omniprefence to be found. Whilft we contemplate the Vastest even of Celeftial Bodies, the Evidence of their Magnitude is alfo the Evidence, that they are determined in their Extenfion; And there is nothing in them, nor in any created Being, which can fuggeft to us the Notion of Immensity, in like manner, as the notions, of Infinite Power, or Goodnefs, or fome other Perfections in the Deity, are Suggested by the Conceptions we have of fuch measures of those Attributes, as are from Him Graciously derived upon our felves. And as there are no footsteps or traces of this Divine Perfection to be found in the visible World,

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