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 Ghost, by the mouth of John, forbids, second of John, 10 verse) Quit the putting the  in God's enemies' hands, and come: ye who  given bonds to the adversary, break your  with hell and death,' and come; break  sworn allegiance to the devil, and come, and  a new allegiance to Jesus Christ, and ye shall  rue it: ye who compear before their courts,  pay them fines, whereby, both ye acknowledge  robbers of God, and call your duty your sin;  these courses and come ye, who go to the, leave these perjured blind guides and come: ye  go to the indulged, leave these traitors to God. , who go to the backslidden silent ministers, leave  betrayers of the cause, and deserters of the  of Christ, and come leave all these and follow , he is a true guide, and will be so unto you,  who any ways seek or take the enemies' protection,  that and come; come to him, and ye shall find  indeed, both for safety and delight. All that are strangers to him, come, ye that are in, come, and ye that know him come. We must that word come, unto you, so long as ye are  until ye be transplanted out of this spiritual, into celestial triumph. O Sirs, come, come, what ye will, and he will give it; O come, come.

Now, it were requisite here to shew you, who it that comes  Christ, who it is that comes not;  it will come as fitly in the second thing which we  noticed in the words, and so we proceed unto it.

The second thing, ye know, was this, the invited, or the determination of the invitation 'my people.' These are they whom he invites to  chambers; his people, they who subscribe to  terms of his covenant, which is, 'I will be your God, and ye shall be my people;' they who  a covenant with him by sacrifice, they who  with him only to be accepted through the