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SERMON I.

2 TIM. iii. 16, 17.

All Scripture is given by Infpiration of God: and is profitable for Doctrine, for Reproof, for Correction, for Inftruction in Righteousness: that the Man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good Works.

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and Admonition. He is alfo prone to Evil, and averfe from Good: and therefore wants Restraint from the former, and Incitement to the latter. Without the Affiftance, which we receive one from another in thefe Refpects, we should be wicked and wretched beyond Imagination. But though we should be most defective in a State of Solitude, yet we are very deplorably fo, even when joined to the best Advantage in Society. Many Points of the

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utmost Moment, relating both to our present and future Condition, we either cannot difcover at all, or not with Certainty: many, which we might, not even the wifer, much less the greater Part, have in Fact known: and those, which hardly any could fail to perceive, all have, more or lefs, failed to regard. Most of thefe Things are vifibly Mens own Fault: and the reft are no Imputation upon God. For unquestionably he may with Juftice place any his Creatures in as low a State, both of Understanding and moral Ability, as he pleases: provided he requires from them, as he certainly will, only in Proportion to what he hath given. And even his infinite Goodness cannot oblige him to bestow on them greater Favours, than his infinite Wisdom fees to be proper: which it is no Wonder should act upon Reafons, to Us unfearchable. But the less we have Ground to expect, the more thankfully we ought to receive whatever Notices, Encouragements or Warnings, he may vouchsafe more immediately from Himself.

Now we have in our Hands a Book, which we call the Bible: containing Accounts of various Communications made to Mankind by their Creator from the Beginning; but princi

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