And tho' after my Skin, Worms destroy this Body, yet in my Flesh fhall I fee Whom I shall fee for my self, and mine Eyes fhall behold, and not another; Thou shalt provide out of all the People able Men, fuch as fear God, Men of Truth, hating Covetousness; and place fuch over them to be Rulers of Thouf- (1) SERMON I The gradual Advances of ISAIAH xi. 9. the latter Part. W I. སྐྱ:- HEN Man was firft created, SERM. there was infus'd into him a divine Principle of Knowledge, by the Direction of which he might attain to that State of Perfection and Immortality to which he was defign'd. This inestimable Grace he quickly forfeited by thirfting after prohibited Knowledge, the Fruit of which was Death to himself and to his Pofterity. THAT the whole Race of Mankind might not be irrecoverably loft for want |