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( 25 ) and let them deliver you in the Day of your Tribulation. Yet, not with ſtanding of all this Rigour, upon their Repentarice, he ſuffers himſelf to be importuned, and his Heart is griev- ed (faith the Text) for the Miſeries of Iſrael. Ah! how little do Enemies apprehend, that they have many Legi- ons of Thunderbolts fighting againſt them. Let Enemies be, as the Sun at Noon, in the higher Elevation of their Power and strength, Prayer can chaſe them many Degrees backward. I may ſay, Enemies of the People of God, at their greateſt Power, are weaker than the Wind of a Be- liever's Mouth, if the Eyes of the Lord be open to behold their Miſeries, and his Ears open to their Cry. How ſad a Plight arc they in whoſe great Deſign is to make them miſerable, that though all Thrones on Earth ſhould be to the People of God like that Throne, Rev. iv. 5. Nothing but Thunderings, Lightnings and dreadful Voices? Is there any Cauſe of Diſcouragement, ſo long as the Throne of Grace is acceſſible, eſpecially in Time of Need? 7thly, There is this to keep the People of God from turning aſide, a Power within, engaging them to a cloſe Adherence to God, not with ſtanding of all Miſeries they can thereby ſuſtain. And 'tis expreſſed in the Compella- tion, O thou whom my Soul loveth.

END of the SERMON.

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