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 other nation’s, Deut. iv. 5, 6. Solomon prefers it before pearls, Prov iii. 15. prefers it before his food, xxii. 12. Jeremiah makes it his joy, Jer. xv. 16. In a word, all the children of God been great lovers of God's word,  could never be prevailed onto part  it, though persecuted for the same

7: Read this excellent word with application to yourselves, as if God to you by name and sirname in  line of it Read it as a love-letter  straight from heaven to you, and to  you up to faith and holiness. Let us accept of its reproofs and admonitions with thankfulness: and say what a mercy is it, that we may read our Father's will in our mother tongue? And that God speaks his mind so plainly us in his word, shewing us what we are to believe, what we are to do, and what we are to pray for, in order to God's glory, and our own happiness.