that the Service of God is perfect Free- SERMON dom. Happy are the People that are in such a Cafe, for they are the true Children of the Covenant, and have this fure Word of Promife from the Lord, that he will be to them a God, and they shall be to Him a People. And fuch indeed He is to them in an emphatical Sense of the Bleffing; for He is to them a reconciled God in the Son of his Love, forgiving all their Sin, and healing all their Infirmities; the God by whom they escape Death, and the God of whom cometh their Salvation: He is the neverfailing Spring of their Comforts, their Defence in Danger, and their Refuge in Trouble. And as He is to them a God, fo are they to Him a People, a willing and faithful People, a loving and obedient People; a People in whom He doth all his Works, fulfils all his Will, and makes good all his Promifes. In this so near and endearing a Relation how happy are they! God's Friends are their Friends, and they have no Enemies but fuch as are Enemies unto Him :. His Angels minifter unto them, his Providence protects them, his Grace supports them, his Spirit guides them. What then X. X. SERMON have they to fear? Seeing that all Things thus ordered muft work together for their Good, whether the World, or Life, or Death, or Things prefent, or Things to come: Behold! All are theirs, and they are Chrift's, and Chrift is God's. Such Honour and Bleffedness have all his Saints! Hallelujah. THE END. |