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ly Ours happens to be the fairest Mark, SERM. because it is Uppermoft; for, were any 1. other fet up in the Room of it, still the fame Cry of Holy Frauds and Prieftcraft would be heard against that also from the Mouths of Profligate Perfons, in Licentious Times. To cut off all Occafion, as much as can be, from those who feek Occafion, let us be fure, all of Us, who are Members of this Excellent Church; Let us be fure, I fay, which is

The Laft thing I have to recommend to you from the Text, to make our Pra&tice of the Gospel, like the first Proofs of it, Confpicuous and Plain; and endeavour, with all our Power, to recommend the Doctrine we embrace to the Hearts of Men, as Openly, and Powerfully, by our good Lives and Actions, as the first Planters of it did, by their Miraculous Performances. So fhall we beft put to Silence the Ignorance of Foolish Mens and be able, in the most convincing, and effectual manner, to make an Answer to our Blafphemers.

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SERM. The Profeffion of the true and pure I. Doctrine of Chrift, and a Practice fuitable to that Profeffion, are both often, in the New Teftament, compared to Light. Like That, they display their bright Beams, and diffuse their Quickning Influence; Enlightning, and Enlivening all that is near, and far off; Diffipating the Mifts of Vice and Ignorance, and Discovering the Hidden things of Darkness. As to our Profeffion of the pure Doctrine of the Gospel, that it fufficiently refembles Light, is manifeft and notorious: Let us resemble it alfo in as Illuftrious and Diftinguishing a Practice, and by Ephef. walking worthy, every way, of that Voiv. 1. cation wherewith we are called. Let us refolve to be (as I truft we are) the Pu

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rest Church upon Earth for our Manners, as well as for our Doctrine; in One reMatt. v. fpect as well as the Other, a Light placed on a Candlestick, and not under a Busbel; a City set upon an Hill, that cannot be bid; In a word, Let Our Light fo fhine before Men, that They, seeing our good Works; may glorify our Father which is in Heaven. SERMON

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MATTH. xi. 3.

Art Thou He that should come? or do we look for Another?

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T this time of Advent, particular- SERM ly dedicated by the Church to a II. Devout Commemoration of our Savi our's Coming in the Flesh, and fet apart

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