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 ter even Riches tranſcending the largeſt account. For as the Apoſtle tells us, Eye not ſeen, nor Ear heard, nor has it  [sic] into the Heart of Man to conceive  God has laid up for thoſe that Love and obey him. All precious Things to which this World gives a Name and of moſt eſteem, are not comparable to them, as a drop of Water to the Ocean, or a grain of Sand to the whole maſs of Earth. And how great then ought our Love to be towards him, that not only tenders us this Treaſure, but ſhed his redeeming Blood to purchaſe it for us, and to draw us out of the Snares of Deſtruction, when we lay in Darkneſs and the ſhadow of Death?

HOW great ought our Veneration to be for ſo tranſcendent a love and favour as this, when the Innocent ſubmitted to die to ſave the Guilty from the Power of the ſecond Death! For he hath delivered from the wrath that is to come, 1 Theſ. 1. 10. So that to them that are in Chriſt there is no condemnation, Rom. viii. i. this being the main Promiſe of God, That whoſoever believeth in him ſhall not periſh but have everlaſting Life, John iii. 15. 16. For this great conqueror has o'erthrown him that had the power of Death (that is the Devil) delivering them who, through fear of Death, were all their Lifetime ſubject to bondage, hav-