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HESE merciful words of our bleſſed and Saviour, might raviſh our Souls  raptures of joy, to think in what a  miſerable and wretched condition  were wallowing in by reaſon of ſin and abominations, that we were dropping into hell eternal deſtruction, for the gates of the  lake ſtand open, and is like a devouring to receive us; but bleſſed be the moſt name of the Lord of Hoſts, who has ſent us,  of his free grace and love, both a conqueror  a comforter, viz. Jeſus Chriſt the ſanctifier of hearts, and the ſalvation of our ſouls.

Therefore, dear friends and Chriſtians, let with fear and reverence give attention to  ſacred word of God, in which we ſhall find  birth of our Lord and Saviour Jeſus Chriſt,  is very mean and poor, and the place too bad  entertain the Lamb of God, which takes  the ſins of the world, Luke ii. 11, 12. being thus born, and laid in a manger oxen and aſſes, becauſe there was no room in inn, it might, in the firſt place, perſuade us to  humble, and alſo bend our proud ſtubborn  to the will and ſervice of God; for Chriſt  bleſſed Saviour, thought it no ſcorn or  to ly in a manger, to eat the bread and drink  water of affliction, to be buffeted, ſpitted at,, crowned with thorns, and crucified on  croſs, to ſhed his precious blood for the  of our loſt ſouls; then ſhall we be made  of the covenant of grace, according to