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HABAKKUK III. 17, 18.

Although the fig-tree fhall not bloffom, neither fhall fruit be in the vines, the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields fhall yield no meat, the flock be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the falls: yet will I rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my falvation. p. 267

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Be clothed with humility; for God refifteth the proud, and giveth grace to the hum

ble,

SERMON XVI.

p. 285

Prophecy the Teftimony of JESUSCHRIST.

REVELATION XIX. 10.

For the teftimony of Jefus is the spirit of

prophecy.

SERMON XVII.

P. 305

GOD the Governor of the World.

PSALM XXII. 28.

The kingdom is the Lord's, and he is the

governor among the nations,

P. 33!

1

SERMON I.

On Miracles.

JOHN III. 2.

No man can do thefe miracles that thou doeft, except God be with him.

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I.

IRACLES, being proposed in SER M.
the gofpel, as evidences of the
truth of our holy religion, it is

well worth our trouble to make a strict
enquiry into their nature and circum-
ftances, that we may be able to give a
reafon of the hope that is in us. To be
inquifitive about what has the appearance
of a Revelation from God, is a pious Dif-
pofition. Thus the ruler of the Jews,
Nicodemus, whofe words I have read,
being a good man, was defirous to know
the Will of God; and having seriously
attended to the wonderful works of our
Saviour, and examined them, according
to what he knew of that Will, he found
juft

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SERM.juft grounds to be convinced that they

I.

were wrought by an extraordinary, or divine power, and therefore, that God must be with him, and approve of his doctrine: No man, faid he, can do thefe miracles that thou doeft, except God be with bim.

He had the advantage of living at the time, and in the Country, where these things were done; and had opportunity himself often to obferve, and confider them. And as he saw that they exceeded all human ability, and were contrary to the common course of things, though perfectly confiftent with the moral perfections and nature of God, he justly concluded that God must be affifting to 'them, or at leaft fome powerful agent commiffioned by him.

In difcourfing on this fubject, I fhall

I. Confider the nature of Miracles in general. Then

II. Shew that though they may be contrary to all our Experience in common things, they may yet be proved by fome extraordinary degree of Teftimony. And

III.

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