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Thefe are written, that we might believe.

believe that Jefus is the Chrift the Son of GOD, and that believing, ye might have Life thro' his Name. [Amen.] [JOHN XXI —25.]

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Faith, the Hope, and the Piety of Chriftians, may be Sect. 203.
confirmed; and especially, that you may more firm-
ly and affuredly believe, that Jefus is the Mef- John XX,
hab, the Son of GOD, partaking of the fame
Divine Glory with the Father, and the fure Ob-
ject of his Peoples Confidence; and that believ
ing it, you may be fo influenced by his inftructive
Difcourfes, his compleat Example, and his dying
Love, that you may have Eternal Life thro' bis
Name. And may GOD grant, that as it is all
most certainly and circumftantially true, fo it may
have that happy Effect upon all those, by whom
this History is perufed, from Age to Age.
Amen!

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HUS did our Victorious Saviour afcend on high, and lead Captivity Luke xxiv. captive: The Chariots of GOD which attended him, were Twenty 15. thousand, even Thousands of Angels; (Pfal. Ixviii. 17, 18.) and being gone into Heaven, he is there feated on the Right Hand of GOD; Angels, A&s ¡. and Authorities, and Powers being made fubject to him. (1 Pet. iii. 22.) Let us his humble Followers look after him with holy Joy, and pleasing Ver. 10. Expectation; congratulating his Triumphs, and trufting thro' his Grace to fhare them.

Like the Apostles let us bow down and worship him; and while we con- Luke xxiv. tinue here below, let us make it our daily Labour and Care, to feek those 52. Things which are above, where Chrift fitteth at the Right Hand of GOD: (Col. iii. 1.) And inftead of amufing ourselves with the vain Dreams of Temporal Grandeur and Felicity, or with curious Enquiries after thofe Times and Seafons, which the Father has referved in his own Power; let us Acts i. 7. apply with Vigour and Zeal to that Business, which he has affigned us; labouring to the utmost to promote his Gospel, and, by a diligent Improvement of our Time and Opportunities, to prepare for his final Ap- Ver. 11. pearance, when the Lord himself fhall defcend from Heaven with more publick Splendor than he returned thither, and hall come in the Glory of his Father, and his own Glory, with a majestick Pomp, which every Eye fhall fee, and with the Sound of a Trumpet, which even all the Nations of the Dead fhall hear.

In the mean Time, let us again thankfully own his gracious Prefence Mark xvi. with his Difciples, whom he left behind him; and with admiring Gra- 20. titude reflect upon the happy Confequences of that Prefence, in the Eftablishment of the Gospel in the World, and the Tranfmiflion of it even unto us, in fo remote an Age and Country.

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Reflections on the great Defign of the Gospel.

Let us especially praise him for these Sacred Records, which contain fuch an authentick and exact Account of thofe important Facts, in which we are all fo nearly concerned; Records incomparably more valuable than the Writings of our private Eftates, or the Charters of our publick Liberties. Let us earnestly pray, that their great Design may be anfwered in us; and make it our importunate Request to him who is the Giver of all Grace, that thro' the Operations of that Holy Spirit, without the Influence of which even Scripture itself, with all our Advantages for understanding and improving it, will be but a fealed Book or a dead Letter, our Faith may be nourished and confirmed by every Portion of it which we read; and that our Hearts may be fo delivered into the fabn xx. 31. Mould of his Word, that believing on Chrift, under all the Characters he bears, we may have Life thro' his Name; and may at length receive the End of our Faith, in the compleat Salvation of our Souls, through him, to whom with the Father, and the eternal Spirit, be undivided Honours, and everlasting Praises. Amen, and Amen!

END of the SECOND VOLUME.

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A TABLE for the more ready finding any Verse of

the Evangelifts in the foregoing Harmony.

N. B. The Verfes between those inferted in this Table follow each other in the fame Section, and begin at the Page referred to. Thus in MAT. Chap. I. the Verses from ver. 1. to ver. 17. are in Sect. ix. and begin at pag. 42. And then from ver. 18. to ver. 25. which ends the Chapter, they are in Sect. viii. and begin at pag. 37.

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