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( 11 ) There are many mysteries in nature that you know little of as this we are presently talking about yet  generally believe them: and surely the one  as strong and firm faith as the other. Oh! to the Lord for the teaching of the spirit, that may unfold unto you the mysteries of his grace. is not a child, sis born into the world of, but what must and will be born after this , there must be a word of grace dropt into the heart, in a way suitable to its nature and  which, by the concurring influence of the  spirit will produce a new creature And this or of promise is the seed out of which the new  proceeds just as a grain of seed grows in your  or gardens A collective body of believers do  spring and grow out of a word of grace I own  one word of grace may be blessed to one , and another word of grace to another person;  all these words of grace are one and the same  kind and nature, all the incorruptable seed of the  Perhaps believer, there is one word blessed  thee, and another to thy neighbour but 'tis all  same seed that comes from Immanual's  land the  of glory, whence all the rich and free proes whereby the spirit operates, derieve their  and being

Now sirs, examine yourselves, if ever you were with, or partakers of a regenerating  upon your souls Oh! Man, was ever grace implanted in thy soul? if thou art not a -born plant of grace, thou dost not belong to bush of Jesus Christ; thou art a wild bramble  this day. Examine yourselves my friends. Did never find the plow of the law turn up the  ground of your hearts, and the seed of the  sown thereby the spirit of grace? Did you find the Holy Ghost dropping grace into thy ; and when thy conscience was pierced with  law terrors, that then a word of grace