As one Spark of God's Wrath firing the Conscience is more terrible than the most fearful Evils in the World so one Beam of his Favour enlightning the Soul is more sweet and ravishing than all the most valued and desir'd things in the World SERMON X. LUKE xiv 23. The Lord said to the Servant Compel them to come in that my House may be full III. I Shall now prove 't is the great Duty of the Ministers of Christ to apply themselves with a holy Zeal to bring Men to partake of the saving Mercies of the Gospel This will appear by considering 1. The Command of God from whom they are sent lays the highest Obligation upon them to perform their Duty The manner and degrees of Obedience are measured by the greatness of the Authority that enjoins it To Soveraign Authority immediate absolute and supream Obedience is due The Authority of God is more binding than the highest in Princes or the dearest in Parents What are all Kings of the Earth to him less than nothing Temporal Greatness consists only in Comparison In the Scale of Magistracy the Superiors to some are subordinate to others But the Majesty of God is absolutely and truly Infinite And as the immediate Servants of the King are under special Obligations to obey his Commands besides the common Duty of his other Subjects so the Ministers of the Gospel by their Consecration and immediate Relation to God are bound with all zealous Diligence to do his Will 2. 'T is the principal End of their Commission God designs in the Contrivance and Revelation of the Gospel to glorify his Mercy and his Son in our Salvation First Love is the clearest and most adequate Notion of the Deity God is Love Now Mercy is medicinal healing and recovering Love The Object of it is the Miserable and Unworthy In God's Moral Government Mercy and Justice are the leading Attributes and Mercy in its Exercise has the Supremacy Mercy rejoices against Judgment When our first Parents were cited to Judgment for their rebellious Sin Mercy promis'd a Saviour before the Sentence was pronounc'd God is stiled the Father of Mercies 't is his natural Off-spring the freest and most delightful Emanation from him Judgment is his strange Work that by Constraint he executes He does not afflict willingly the Children of Men God is more pleased to see the Fruits of his Mercy in his Creatures restor'd to Happiness than the Effects of his Justice in the Guilty and Miserable To be inclin'd to do Evil and Hurt is an Imperfection infinitely distant and opposite to the Divine Nature The Lord God is a Sun and as 't is proper to it to enlighten revive and refresh the World by its Operations and Influences 't is accidental to consume and destroy and proceeds from the Imperfection of Things upon whom his Beams fall Thus 't is according to the Nature of God to dispense the liberal Effusions of his Goodness to the Creatures if they feel the Effects of his Justice 't is for Sin that deserves it and draws it forth into Exercise Mercy is God's Glory by Glory we understand the Lustre that results from the Perfection of Things and is attractive and worthy of Admiration There is Light in one Beam of the Sun but Glory results from the Union of all its Beams in their full Strength Accordingly a double Glory belongs to God 1st His Essential Glory that results from his transcendent Excellencies the supream Beauty and Brightness of that unapproachable Light wherein he is said to dwell every Attribute being truly infinite is most glorious 2dly Declarative Glory that consists in the Operation and Influence of God's Perfections and in the humble and thankful Adoration of them by intelligent Creatures Some Divine Attributes are more eminently the Glory of God as they are more declarative of his Perfections and more sensibly and powerfully affect the Minds and Hearts of Men. In this respect Mercy as 't is the most benign and comfortable so 't is the brightest Light in all the Constellation of the Divine Attributes 't is our Happiness we are under it Aspects and Influences The other essential Excellencies of God are regarded as the Qualities of our Soveraign infinitely above us with most humble Fear and respectful Admiration But his Mercy represents him as our Father and Friend and engages our Affections entirely to him When Moses desir'd to see God's Glory he told him his Goodness should pass before him Now Mercy is the most excellent Degree of Goodness 'T is Goodness primarily excited and active from it self and takes occasion from the Misery of the Creature to be beneficent 'T is observable when he was proclaimed in his glorious Titles The Lord the Lord God Merciful and Gracious next to the Deity Mercy is plac'd as his dearest Attribute and of the thirteen Titles of Honour attributed to him nine belong to Mercy to signify the advantage it has above Justice Mercy is his peculiar Treasure 't is said he is rich in Mercy not in Possessions tho the Earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof his Riches are not without himself but in his own Perfections Now 't is the great Design of God to glorify this Attribute in the Salvation of the Lost and Miserable Adam had sufficient Grace to stand but was free to fall and by the Fraud of Satan join'd with his own Folly was seduc'd from his Duty and involv'd himself and all his Progeny in utter Ruin It was very becoming God that his Enemy should not obtain his End that Mankind should not be the eternal Trophy of the Tempter and so noble a part of the Creation be as it were abolish'd for ever From hence the Mercy of God took its Rise and most apparently and eminently declar'd it self in sending his Son the Heir of his Love and Glory to be the Redeemer and Ransom of the Lost and Miserable The Gospel is made up of Arguments and Endearments of Commands and compassionate Calls of incouraging Invitations and the most constraining Motives that sinful Men would apply themselves to our blessed Saviour and not perish for ever in their Sins And God has appointed an Order of Men consecrated to this Service This is most excellently exprest by the Apostle Now we are Embassadors for Christ as tho God did beseech you by us we pray you in Christ's stead be reconciled to God From hence the Duty of Evangelical Ministers is clear and consequent that with zealous Affections and persevering Diligence they should endeavour to bring Souls to partake of the Grace of the Gospel An Objection may be raised If God be pleased with the Salvation of sinful Men why are not all saved for nothing is the Object of his Will but is within the compass of his Power The Objection is specious and may surprize at first but duly considered may receive a sufficient Answer 1. 'T is a leading Rule that when Doctrines are clearly revealed in the Scripture we must yield
moved and melted at the sight of others Miseries and such may be beneficent and compassionate to the Saints in their Afflictions but the Spring of this Love is Good-Nature not Divine Grace There are Human Respects that incline others to Kindness to the Saints as they are united by Interest Fellow-Citizens and Neighbours and as they receive Advantage by Commerce with them or as obliged by their Benefits But Civil Amity and Gratitude are not that holy Affection that is an Assurance of our Spiritual State There are other Motives of Love to the Saints that are not so low nor mercenary in the thickest Darkness of Paganism the Light of Reason discovered the amiable Excellence of Vertue as becoming the Human Nature and useful for the Tranquillity and Welfare of Mankind and the Moral Goodness that adorns the Saints the Innocence Purity Meekness Justice Clemency Benignity that are visible in their Conversations may draw Respects from others who are Strangers to the Love of God and careless of his Commandments And as the Mistake of this Affection is easy so it is infinitely dangerous for he that builds his hope of Heaven upon a sandy Foundation upon false Grounds will fall ruinously from his Hopes and Felicity at last How fearful will be the Disappointment of one that has been a Favourer of the Saints that has defended their Cause protected their Persons relieved their Necessities and presum'd for this that his Condition is safe as to Eternity tho he lives in the known neglect of other Duties and the indulgent Practice of some Sin But if we find that our Love to the Children of God flows from our Love to God that sways the Soul to an entire compliance to his Commands and makes us observant of them in the course of our Lives What a blessed Hope arises from this Reflection We need not have the Book of the Divine Decrees opened and the Secrets of Election unvail'd for we know that we are past from Death to Life if we love the Brethren This is an infallible Effect and Sign of the Spiritual Life and the Seed and Evidence of Eternal Life How to bear Afflictions SERMON IV. HEBREWS xii 5. My Son despise not thou the chastening of the Lord nor faint when thou art rebuked of him THE words are an excellent Passage from the Book of the Proverbs wherein the Supream Eternal Wisdom is represented giving Instruction to the Afflicted how to behave themselves under Troubles so as they may prove beneficial to them the Counsel is that they should preserve a Temperament of Spirit between the excess and defect of Patience and Courage neither despising the Chastenings of the Lord by a sinful neglect of them as a small unconcerning matter nor fainting under them as a Burden so great and oppressing that no Deliverance was to be expected To enforce the Exhortation Wisdom useth the amiable and endearing Title My Son to signify that God in the quality of a Father corrects his People the Consideration whereof is very proper to conciliate Reverence to his Hand and to encourage their Hopes of a blessed Issue The Proposition that arises from the Words is this 'T is the Duty and best Wisdom of afflicted Christians to preserve themseves from the vicious Extreams of despising the Chastenings of the Lord or fainting under them To illustrate this by a clear Method I shall endevour to shew I. What it is to despise the Chastenings of the Lord and the Causes of it II. What fainting under his Rebukes signifies and what makes us incident to it III. Prove that 't is the Duty and best Wisdom of the Afflicted to avoid these Extreams IV. Apply it First To despise the Chastenings of the Lord imports the making no account of them as unworthy of serious Regard and includes Inconsiderateness of Mind and an Insensibleness of Heart 1. Inconsiderateness of Mind with respect to the Author or End of Chastenings 1. With respect to the Author when the Afflicted looks only downwards as if the Rod of Affliction sprang out of the Dust and there were no superiour Cause that sent it Thus many apprehend the Evils that befal them either meerly as the Productions of Natural Causes or as casual Events or the Effects of the Displeasure and Injustice of Men but never look on the other side of the Vail of the second Causes to that invisible Providence that orders all If a Disease strikes their Bodies they attribute it to the extremity of Heat or Cold that distempers their Humours if a Loss comes in their Estates 't is ascribed to Chance Carelesness and Falseness of some upon whom they depended but God is concealed from their sight by the nearness of the immediate Agent Whereas the principal Cause of all Temporal Evils is the over-ruling Providence of God Shall there be Evil in a City and the Lord hath not done it They come not only with his Knowledg and Will but by his Efficiency The Locusts that infected Egypt are as real an Effect of God's Wrath as the most miraculous Plague altho an East Wind brought them and a West Wind carried them away The Arrow that was shot at a venture and pierc'd between the Joints of Ahab's Armour was directed by the Hand of God for his Destruction Shimei's cursing of David tho it was the overflowing of his Gall the Effect of his Malignity yet that holy King look'd higher and acknowledged the Lord hath bidden him As the Lord is a God of Power and can inflict what Judgments he pleaseth immediately so he is a God of Order and usually punisheth in this World by subordinate means Now where-ever he strikes tho his Hand is wrap'd up in a Cloud yet if it be not observed especially if by habitual Incogitancy Men consider not with whom they have to do in their various Troubles this profane neglect is no less than a despising the Chastenings of the Lord. 2. Inconsiderateness of the End of the Divine Discipline is a great degree of Contempt The Evils that God inflicts are as real a part of his Providence as the Blessings he bestows as in the course of Nature the Darkness of the Night is by his Order as well as the Light of the Day therefore they are always sent for some wise and holy Design Sometime tho more rarely they are only for trial to exercise the Faith Humility Patience of eminent Saints for otherwise God would lose in a great measure the Honour and Renown and his Favourites the Reward of those Graces Affictions being the Sphere of their Activity But for the most part they are castigatory to bring us to a sight and sense of our State to render Sin more evident and odious to us They are fitly exprest by pouring from Vessel to Vessel that discovers the Dregs and Sediment and makes it offensive that before was concealed The least Affliction even to the Godly is usually an Application of the Physician of Spirits
2. Men are miserably deceived about Repentance This is indispensably required not only by the Command but as a Disposition that qualifies the Sinner for pardoning Mercy For altho the Majesty and Supremacy of God be illustriously visible in pardoning Sinners and 't is most evident that his Authority is above the Rigor of the Law and his Mercy is infinitely free yet they are always exercis'd correspondently to his essential and unchangeable Perfections his ruling Wisdom his unspotted Holiness and governing Justice From hence it follows that a Sinner remaining in the Love and under the Power of his Sins is not a capable Object of pardoning Mercy Who can conceive that a wise Prince should send forth a Proclamation of Pardon to Rebels without their Consent to return to their Allegiance John the Baptist the Forerunner of the Rising Sun of Righteousness the Morning-Star of the Gospel preach'd the Baptism of Repentance for the Remission of Sins Even our Saviour begins his preaching the Gospel with this Repent ye and believe the Gospel St. Peter directed those who were anxious and inquiring about their Salvation Repent and be baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ for the Remission of Sins He repeats this Doctrine in Acts 3. 19. Repent ye therefore and be converted that your Sins may be blotted out when the Times of refreshing shall come from the Presence of the Lord. And he gives Testimony of the Resurrection of Christ Him hath God exalted to be a Prince and a Saviour to give Repentance to Israel and Forgiveness of Sins According to this unalterable Tenor of the Gospel Repentance is the Condition that qualifies the Subject without which no Man is pardoned Some are strangely scrupulous of using this word Condition tho 't is authorized by the full Current of the Reformed Divines and I know none more convenient to express the necessity of it in a pardon'd Person Our Saviour tells his Disciples Ye are my Friends if ye do whatsoever I command you Are not those words a Conditional Assertion upon what Terms they possess that inestimable Privilege of being his Friends Thus when God invites Men to come out from the Pollutions of the World and to touch no unclean thing and I will receive you and I will be your Father and you shall be my Sons and Daughters saith the Lord Almighty Are not these Conditional Promises And upon the Performance of the Terms the Blessing will be bestowed and not otherwise 'T is objected that the asserting Repentance to be the Condition of Pardon lessens the Grace of the Gospel but this is a great Mistake for Repentance is an Evangelical Duty and Grace The Law requires Innocence and perfect Obedience or condemns without Mercy the Gospel commands and accepts Repentance This Grace was purchas'd by our Saviour and is wrought in us by the holy Spirit and join'd with Faith are the first Fruits of the returning Sinner to God When 't is exercis'd in the most eminent degrees it has not the least Merit nor Causality in the obtaining Pardon If a repenting Sinner could fill the Air with his Sighs and Heaven with his Tears if all his vital Springs were open'd and Streams of Blood flow'd out they cannot be satisfactory to God's injured Justice The unreconcilable Hatred of Sin the ardent Love of Holiness and stedfast Resolution to follow it which are Ingredients in sincere Repentance tho they are pleasing to God yet are the Duty of the reasonable Creature before the commission of Sin and therefore can deserve nothing of God But the ordaining an inseparable Connexion between Repentance and Pardon is honourable to God and very beneficial to Men for there is no State of Misery more miserable than for the Sinner to be hardned in his Sins But to return from this Digression The Scripture describes Repentance by a sincere Change and Renovation of the Mind the leading Faculty by the entire turning of the Heart from the love of Sin to the love of Holiness by the active lively Passions Sorrow Fear Shame Indignation Zeal that are principal Ingredients in it and by the Fruits worthy of Repentance and Works meet for Repentance 'T is called Repentance from dead Works and Repentance unto Life Now Men are willingly deceived with an insincere and ineffective Repentance either with a meer mental Change or with broken Resolutions instead of the intire Heart or with the leaving some Sins and retaining others that are sutable to their Humours and Lusts. They confess their Sins and condemn themselves for them sometimes they have flashing Thoughts melting Affections good Purposes to forsake Sin this they think to be sincere Repentance but when a Temptation appears they are easily overcome and live in the habitual Practice of their provoking Sins This Conceit of their being true Penitents is as unreasonable as if one that has a returning Ague should think himself freed from his Disease in the intervals of his Fits Now to quiet Conscience they readily apply to themselves the words of the Apostle What I do I allow not And since the best Saints while they are in sympathy with frail Flesh cannot be perfect but many Sins they unwarily and unwillingly commit which are Infirmities lamented by them and graciously forgiven by their Heavenly Father therefore indulgent Sinners take shelter under this Pretence that their Relapses are meer unavoidable Infirmities But what Weakness can be pretended for wilful habitual Sins Such Excuses do not cover their Guilt but discover their strong Affections to their Lusts They have not the Excuse of Ignorance to pretend the Flesh and the World are omnipotent Enemies that cannot be resisted is to blaspheme the Grace of the holy Spirit In short a new Life is inseparable from Repentance in its Reality Sad and serious Thoughts Sighs and Tears the sorrowful Confession of Sins and good Purposes against them are the Blossoms of Repentance ineffective without the substantial Fruits of it in a reformed Conversation 'T is one of the Arts of Satan to join things together that are inconsistent In Paradise he assured the Woman that she might take of the forbidden Tree and of the Tree of Life and he now deceives many with the hope that their indulged repeated Sins are consistent with Repentance But if Men do not forsake the foul Sins they lament their Sorrow will go with them to Hell and settle in the Worm that shall never die Fifthly The Tempter hinders Men from Compliance with the present Invitations of Grace by suggesting there will be time enough for accepting them hereafter and a future Repentance will be sufficient to redress all their Miscarriages By this Deceit he trains them on to Ruin By this he eludes the Force of present Convictions that without Repentance they must perish for ever and puts Men out of the Compass of Conversion 'T is clear by its own Light and needs no other Proof that present Obedience is due to the Commands of God To day if you will hear
our Assent tho we cannot resolve all the Difficulties that are raised against them 'T is unreasonable to deny what is evident because we cannot unfold what is obscure There is no Doctrine more frequently and emphatically asserted in the Divine Writings than that the Repentance of a Sinner and his acceptance of Pardon and Life is very pleasing to God He assures us in the most sacred and solemn manner of this As I live saith the Lord I have no pleasure in the Death of the Wicked but that the Wicked turn from his way and live He is willing they should be saved and they are wilful to be damned With what render and melting Compassions does he argue with them Why will ye die O House of Israel as if they were upon the brink of Hell and ready to drop into irrecoverable Misery 2. We must distinguish between his directing Will and his approving Will whatever God decrees to effect shall be infallibly accomplish'd but many things that he approves are left undone His Commands are his Will the Rule of our Duty but not of his Purpose what he will do The Scripture mentions the Word of God's Power and the Word of his Holiness The Word of his Power effects all things according to his Will but the Word of his Holiness his Laws declar'd to regulate our Lives are often oppos'd and without Efficacy 3. The Wisdom of God directs all the Operations of his Attributes that orders the Dispensations of Mercy and the Inflictions of Justice When the Apostle had considered the astonishing Oeconomy of Providence with respect to the Jews and Gentiles he breaks forth O the Depth of the Riches both of the Wisdom and Knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his Judgments and his Ways past finding out That so great a part of the World live in Darkness and die in Darkness and go to their Fathers where they shall never see Light and the Day-spring from on high visits other Nations is according to the Counsel of his Will 4. God does afford assisting Grace to Sinners which if they improved he would not desert them The Gospel is the Ministration of the Spirit to illuminate excite and perswade Sinners not to forsake their own Mercy He strives with them he woes and waits to be gracious till by their obstinate Resistance they quench his holy Motions 'T is true he dispenses Grace in different degrees for he is the Master of his own Favours but tho effectual converting Grace is not bestowed upon all yet there is common Grace that has a tendency to Conversion which if humbly and thankfully improved such is the most free and excellent Goodness of God Men would receive further Supplies But they are careless and opposite to his gracious Operations therefore the Spirit is most righteously withdrawn from them He that in Luxury has wasted his Estate 't is just he dies in Poverty Besides this 't is very considerable that Men shall be condemned at the last Day not for mere Impotence but obstinate Opposition they loved Darkness rather than Light because their Deeds are evil not for the want of that Grace they did not receive but for the neglect to improve that Grace they had received and rejecting what was offered The slothful Servant was condemn'd for hiding his single Talent in a Napkin not because he had not five Talents Secondly 'T is the great Design of God to glorify his Son When he brought his First-begotten into the World the Command was Let all the Angels of God worship him God has given him a Name above every Name that at the Name of Jesus every Knee should bow of things in Heaven and Earth and under the Earth and every Tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the Glory of God the Father Those who cross his Supreme Wisdom and Soveraign Will shall by a constrain'd Submission acknowledg the high Dignity of his Son The great Command of the Gospel is that Men should believe on the Name of his Son Jesus Christ Him hath God exalted to be a Prince and a Saviour for to give Repentance and Remission of Sins The Death of Christ may be considered as an Act of Obedience to God and of Love to Men. His Intention was to glorify God by bringing lost Souls to him Now 't is promised as a Reward of his Sufferings he shall see of the Travail of his Soul and be satisfied He is infinitely pleased with the Salvation of Souls as the Fruit of all his Anguish and bloody Agony The Election of a number of the lost World that shall believe in him and be adopted and saved by him has a special respect to his Honour that his Death might not be in vain that the Son of God may be magnified in his unspeakable Love to them and their sincere Obedience to him his relative Glory as Head of the Body will shine in them for ever 'T is also observable the Decree of Election is of infallible Accomplishment both as to the Conversion and Perseverance of the Elect not only because the Divine Will is unchangeable and insuperable with respect to the Events determined by it but with a peculiar regard to the Glory of Christ. No Principle of Opposition in the corrupt Heart of Man can frustrate the Operation of God's Spirit either in the powerful entrance or sure continuance of his Grace Our Saviour tells us All that the Father gives me shall come to me And speaking of his Sheep he saith My Father which gave them me is greater than all and none is able to pull them out of my Father's Hand The Purpose of God and Purchase of Christ secure their Salvation for these our Saviour intercedes Holy Father keep through thine own Name those whom thou hast given me that they may be one as we are His Mediation is never interrupted when Christ's Prayer and God's Power are ineffectual then may they fall away totally and for ever whom God keeps and Christ commends to his keeping From hence it appears that the Ministers of the Gospel are indispensably obliged zealously to endeavour the Salvation of Souls which the Father has design'd for the Honour of his Mercy and which the Son of God esteems his dearest Glory The APPLICATION 1. 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Ashurst A Sermon at the Funeral of the Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ADVERTISEMENT NEwly printed the Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New With Annotations and Parallel Scriptures To which is annex'd The Harmony of the Gospels As also The Reduction of the Jewish Weights Coins and Measures to our English Standards And a Table of the Promises in Scripture By Samuel Clark Minister of the Gospel Printed in Folio of a very fair Letter the like never before in one Volume Likewise his Analysis Or A Survey of the whole Bible containing an Analytical Account or Division of all the Holy Scriptures affording a pleasant Prospect into the several Rooms of this sacred Edifice and the Variety of Furniture contained in them Now in the Press Both sold by J. Robinson at the Golden Lion in St. Paul's Church-yard Regeramus ipsae crimen atque ultro impiam Venerem arguamus scelere velandum est scelus Senec. Hippolitus 1 Joh. 3. 9. Psal. 100. Psal. 12. 4. Dan. 7. 10. Psal. 103. 20. 2 Cor. 4. 4. Ephes. 2. 2. 1 Tim. 1. James 4. 11. Psal. 19. Psal. 119. 140. Rom. 11. Rom. 1. Psal. 139. 14 15 16. Job 10. 8. Rev. 4. 11. Rom. 7. 10. * Omnes Deos colendos esse sapienti Cur ergo à numero caeterorum ille rejectus est nihil restat ut dicant hujus Dei sacra recipere noluerint nisi quia solum se coli voluerit Aug. de Consens Evang c. 17. Jer. 2. 12 13. Psal. 50. Deut. 29. 17 19 20. Psal. 50. Job Job 22. 13 14. Prima haec est ultio quod se judice nemo nocens absolvit Luke 15. 28. * Lumine qui semper proditur ipsi suo 1 Pet. 1. 22. 1 Joh. 4. 7. John 15. 12. Psal. 15. Psal. 16. Psal. 128. Neh. 2. 1 Joh. 3. 16. Heb. 13. 16. 1 Cor. 10. 31. Phil. 3. 10 11. 1 Joh. 5. 3. Tert. Apol c. 33. James 2. Psal. 19. 7 8. Psal. 119. Luke 16. 17. Mat. 6. 2. 1 Joh. 3. 14. Prov. 3. 12. I. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Job 5. 6. Amos 3. 6. Exod. 10. 13 19. 1 Kings 22. 34. 1 Sam. 16. 11. Mic. 6. 9. Job 11. 12. Psal. 58. 4. Hosea 7. 11. Isa. 26. 11. 2 Sam. 15. 30. Jer. 5. 3. Heb. 3. 13. Zech. 7. 12. Luke 21. 34. 1 Kings 16. Joshua 6. 26. Isa. 9. 9 10. II. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Prov. 19. 14. Psal. 73. 14. III. Heb. 12. 9. 1 Joh. 4. 9. Job 22. 21. Isa. 1. 5. Levit. 26. 23 24. Amos 3. 5. Prov. 21. 16. Vid. Mr. Mede in loc Rev. 21. 8. Rev. 3. Rom. 12. 12. IV. Amos 3. 4. Job 15. 25 26. 2 Chron. 28. Job 34. 31 32. Psal. 89. 30 31 32. Deut. 8. 5. Ver. 8. In Psal. 25. Ver. 9. 2 Sam. 7. 14. 1 Cor. 10 13. 1 Cor. 11. 32. Rom. 15. 4. Rom. 9. 4 5. Rom. 3. 2. Deut. 18. Psal. 2. Isa. 40. Luke 24. Luke 14. 18 19 20. Ver. 21. Ver. 22. Ver. 23. Ver. 24. Isa. 4. 9 6. Ephes. 2. 12. Rev. 19. 15. 2 Cor. 10. 4 5. Luke 9. 55. Luke 24. 29. Gal. 2. 14. Rom. 8. Gal. 1. 1 Pet. 1. Psal. 49. Job 12. 4. Isa. 6. Deut 25. 17 18 19. Mat. 22. 2 Tim. 1. 1 Cor. 2. 14. Rom. 5. 2 Pet. 1. Eccles. 9. 3. 1 Cor. 1. Rom. 10. 8. Mat. 9. 28. 2 Pet. 3. 5. Luke 15. 14. 1 Kings 12. 4. Mat. 5. Rom. 10. 3. 2 Cor. 5. 21. Luke 16. Mat. 5. Mark 9. Tit. 2. John 6. 64. Mark 6. 20. John 5. 2 Chron. John 1. 12. 1 Pet. 1. 18. Jer. 8. 7. 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