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A Sermon preached many years before, may be the means of salvati∣on many years after. [ 462]

IT is recorded,* 1.1 how that many resorted unto Christ, and said, Iohn did no miracle, but all things that Iohn spake of this man were true; And they believed on him there, Joh. 10. 41, 42. Iohn, it seems, had preached of Christ before, yet they did not thereupon believe in Christ when he preached; Iohn was dead and gone, but now when Christ comes amongst them, they upon Iohn's former Sermons preached unto them some while since do now believe: Iohn was dead, but his word was not dead, that now works while he lies in his Grave.* 1.2 Thus many a man hears the word and minds it; but at present it hath no work at all: It is possible, that seven years, twenty years af∣ter it may fall a working; a Sermon preached seven years before, may be the means of a mans conversion seven years after.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Ierem. Dyke, ut ante••.
• * 1.2

  ••dolor hic tibi proderit olim. Ovid.