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 was written, ſo Chriſt's miracles were wrought before the New Teſtament was written: never a book was ſo atteſted as this, even by a cloud of witnesses, a cloud of miracles, a cloud of martyrs, who ſealed with their blood the truth contained in it. God, in the New Teſtament, exactly fulfils what he hath ſaid in the Old; yea, the preſent ſtate of all the world is a viſible performing of ſcripture prophecies.---Are not the Jews at this day a ſcattered and deſpiſed people, as the ſcripture ſaid they ſhould be? Hath not God done as he hath ſaid?--Is not Antichriſt, the long lived man of ſin, and the cruel man of blood, as the ſcripture told he ſhould be. Thus it is done as he hath ſaid.---Are not the pagan parts of the earth the dark places and habitations of cruelty, as the ſcripture ſays they ſhould be? Thus it is as he hath ſaid.---Do not the ſeven churches of Aſia ly deſolate, as they were threatned, unleſs they repented? Thus it is as he hath ſaid.---Is not Mahomet, the falſe prophet, and his followers like the waters of the great river Euphrates, to which they are compared in ſcripture And thus it is as he hath ſaid.-Does not the whole world ly in wickedneſs as the word of God ſhews? And ſo it is as he hath ſaid.--Is not every ſaint as a brand plucked out of the burning as the ſcripture ſpeaks? And it is as he hath ſaid.---Are not Deiſts and ſcoffers walking after their own luſts, and ridiculing the promiſe of Chriſt's coming as the ſcripture ſpeaks? And ſo it is as he hath ſaid.--Are not all the black marks of perilous times in the last days upon us as the ſcripture ſpeaks? And ſo it is as he hath ſaid.--Are not the fooliſh virgins as many, yea, and more than the wiſe, and all ſlumbering and ſleeping, and all according as he hath ſaid? Doth not the Spirit ſpeak expreſly, that in the latter times ſome ſhall depart from the faith, according it is as he hath ſaid?---Is not the goſpel a favour of life to ſome and a favour of death to others?---Is not Chriſt precious to ſome, and a ſtone of ſtumling and a rock of offence to others, as the ſcripture ſpeaks, and ſo it is as he hath ſaid?-Look about you, and fee if any thing that falls out be not an accompliſhment of the word and, O how ſhould you value this word! not a jot or title of it ſhall fall to the ground.

Walk to this garden of the ſcripture, and pluck up the flowers of goſpel promiſes and put them in your boſom; live by faith upon the promiſes, and be perſuaded, whatever ſtands in the way, that he will do as he hath ſaid. He will do ſo, for what he hath ſaid he hath written. what he hath ſaid he hath ſealed, what he hath ſaid he hath ſworn, what he hath ſaid he will never unſay; therefore, take hold of his word of grace, and hold him at his word in life and death, ſaying Do as thou haſt ſaid.