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(7) We have been called unto liberty; and now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, we shall be free indeed, having our fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

(0) If we take the yoke of Christ upon us, we shall find rest unto our souls; for his yoke is easy, and his burden is light; and his commandments are not grievous.

(p) Goa is not unrighteous to forget our work and labour of love, which we have shewed towards his name.

(9) Our spiritual sacrifices are acceptable to God. by Jesus Christ, In whom we have boldness and access, with confidence by the faith of him. And whatsoever we shall ask of the Father in his name, he will give it us.

(r) If we keep the commandments of Christ, we shall abide in his love; and we are his friends, if we do whatsoever he commandeth us.

(s) In the world we shall have tribulation; but Christ hath overcome the world, that in him we might have peace. And the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory bý Christ Jesus, after that we have suffered a while here, will make us perfect, establish, strengthen, settle us.

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(t) God hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace; which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast.

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() God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

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(w) He hath begotten us again unto a lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, to an inheritance incorruptibe and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for us. whom he justifies, them he will also glorify. The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

(*) He hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son; having made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light.

(y) Jesus Christ hath loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood; and hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father.

(*) We are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people, which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God; which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. We are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the first-born, which are written ia heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood

(") Eph. 2. 4, 5, 6.

(w) 1 Pet. 1. 3, 4.

Rom. 8. 3c.

Rom. 6. 23(x) Col. 1. 13. 12. (y) Rev. 1. 5, 6. (x) 1 Pet.

2.9, 10. Heb. 12. 22, 23, 24,

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of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.

(a) Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God; and if sons then heirs, heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ. Now we are the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we know that when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is; and with open face beholding, as in a glass, the glory of the Lord, shall be changed into the same image from glory to glory.

(b) All things are to be counted but loss and dung, that we may win Christ; for to die and to be with Christ, is gain.

(c) Who shall separate us from the love of God? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors, through him that loved us: So that neither death, nor life; nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

(d) This is that great salvation, and this is the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ; of which the prophets inquired and searched diligently; and which was preached unto us by the apostles of Christ, with the Holy Ghost sent down

Heb. 12. 24.
J John 3. 2. 2 Cor. 3. 18.
(c) Rom. 8 35, 37, 38, 39.
1 Pet. I. 10, 12.

(a) I John 5. 1.

Gal. 4. 7.

(4) Phil. 3.-8.
(d) Heb. 2. 3.

Rom. 8 17. Phil. 1. 21, 23.

Rom. 15 29.

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from heaven; which things the angels desired to to look into.

(e) Ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, fince the day that God created man upon the earth; and ask from the one side of the heaven to the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it.

(f) Seeing then that all these things were for our sakes, what manner of men ought we to be in all holy conversation and godliness; For if we sin wilfully, after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, and turn away from him that speaketh from heaven, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins; but a certain fearful looking for of judgment, and fiery indignation.

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CHAP. V.

Concerning ANGELS and SPIRITS.

GOOD ANGELS.

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HERE is an innumerable company of angels in heaven; which excel in strength, and which are greater in power, and might, and wisdom, and goodness, than men; whe in their first estate were made a little lower than the angels.

(b) This is God's host; the ministers of his that do his pleasure.

(c) These are the holy elect angels, and angels of light, which stand round about the throne of God; and Michael the archangel is the great prince among them.

(d) In old time God sent his angels, unto men to commune with them; to inform them, and shew them several matters; to signify to them

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