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 In ſhort, the Church of Chriſt is a happy ſociety, O happy, eternally happy will they be, that can ſay, I am a branch of Chriſt's Buſh. For the Buſh ſhall be tranſplanted from this earth to the ſoil of glory, and grow in verdant beauty and fragrant ſplendor for evermore. Oh! then let us all, with one voice, ſay, we will be branches of the Buſh: we will take up our reſidence with the happy Buſh, whether proſperity ſmile or adverſity frown.

The other heads in the method, I cannot ſo much as touch upon at preſent, and therefore, leaving them to another occaſion, I ſhall ſhut up all with a very brief word of,

I. Is it ſo, as has been ſaid; then, Sirs, will you unite with this bleſſed Buſh, and the root thereof. O be united and married to Jeſus Chriſt, and you ſhall be branches of this happy Buſh. Conſider, that there's no ſafety in evil times, but by being among this company. The wrath of God will light on the wild brambles of this world, and conſume them to aſhes but not one drop of wrath ſhall fall on the head of this bleſſed Buſh. Haſten and eſcape, Sirs, from among the brambles that are deſtined to deſtruction unto this Buſh that grows on the renowned root of Jeſſe. Seek to be among the trees of righteouſneſs and the planting of the Lord, and you shall grow as ſo many wilows by the water courses, and be fat and flouriſhing amidſt all the withering winds that may blow from earth or hell.

O be reſtleſs till you be brought to Jeſus, and united to him as the living and life-giving vine, that ſo you may partake of the ſap and juice thereof and thereby be rendered fruitful in every good word and work and, becauſe he liveth, ye may live alſo. O thou art made up for ever if thou in the command and call of God, give thy heart to the Lord Jeſus