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SERMON VII.
1 TIM. 3.16.Beleeved on in the World, &c.
THe mystery of Godlinesse is comprehended in two things: Gods actings towards us, and our actings towards God; of the first you have heard in the former expressions, how richly and sutably God hath discovered himselfe to the salvation of his poore creature, man; God himselfe personates us in our condi∣tion, and so transacts our happinesse, and that we might have the comfort of it, proclaimes it by preaching,, even unto the Gentiles, the most forlorne and con∣temptiblest soules, and this is the right line in which the greatnesse of this my∣stery