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Rh them tanding and beholding them afar off, and the like: So is the Security of the Good, to whom it is vouchaed, expres'd by his Eyes watching over them, his Ears open to them, his Hand upholding them by tanding by them, and in my Text, being nigh unto them, in all things that they call upon him for.

You, I am ure, need not be told, how eminently Irael was honoured in this repect, above any other People then in Being. The manner of their Deliverance out of Egypt, and the wonderfully peedy Redrees they found from the numberles Difficulties that encounter'd them, are Evidences ufficiently known of God's peculiar Care and Kindnes for them. And whoever hall reflect at all upon the different Fortunes, of that Nation; how inconiderable their Beginnings were, how mighty and general the Oppoition againt them, and yet how, prodigious and, irreitible their Succees, mut needs allow, that the Palmit hath given the true Account of their Etablihment and Increae, when declaring, that it was God, who drove out the Heathen, and planted Them in, That they got not the Land in Poeion through their own Sword, neither was it their own Arm that helped them; But His right Hand, and His Arm, and the Light of His Countenance, even becaue he had a favour unto them. So exceeding beneficial to Themelves, o manifet a Ditinction between Them and all they had to contend with, was the Firt Advantage pecified here, The contant Readine of God to hear their Complaints, and to aert their Caue.

2. Nor was that Other Ditinction les remarkable, The having Statutes and Judgments o righteous, as all the Law that Moes et before them. The Excellence of that Religion might eaily be made appear in many more Intances, than the Time will uffer me to mention, I will therefore, as briefly as I can, reduce my Thoughts upon this Subject to the Three following Heads.

1. Its informing them in the Knowledge and Worhip of the One True God. It gave them right and reverent Apprehenions of his Being and his Providence, of the Inviibility