Å N D SERM ONS 1759 OF. Mornid MINISTER of the Gospel ; nerals in the Army AND Now MASTER of Gonvil and Caius Colledge in Cambridge. Heretofore Published at Several Times, and on Several Occasions ; and now gathered in LONDON: J. Sowle in White-Hart-Court, in Gracions-Street, 180.163. A Preface to the READER W fea E are almost at the end of Books; these own Funerals; whilst ihey are holding forth the spirit, the letter is grown old and is dying into the newness of the spirit, and there looks is be found, into which all things shall be resolved, being restored out of their enmity, as into their Original whence they came ; even Preaching and Preachers, Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Pafters, and Teachers, given for the perfecting of Ephef. 4. the Saints, for the edifying of the body of Christ, 11, 12, 13. till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a per man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ; till we come into a spiritual uniformity in Chrift, being all filled and cloathed with bim, beyond all external forms, which are the rudiments and elements of children, with which state There is no uniformity consistent, there being in it so many several ftatures and ages; And the DeSign of Uniformity upon that is from none but Satan. to kil Christ whilft he is a Child, and stifle bim in his Swadling cloaths, though the pretence be with Herod to give bim bonour and worship. But bow vain are these plots upon him, who shall subdue all things to himself and swallow up death, or the vail (a part whereof external forms are) into victory, and bring forth judgment with triumph ? He shall Swallow up all, and rise up out of that which hath swallowed him and been his Grave, and that have we been, and made every thing to be, who are now giving up our dead, expetting to live in the liber. Efai. 25. 76 % of our prisoner, whom we see af last to be our Lord, |