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SERMON

XVIII.

PREVENTING Love; or, God's Love to us,

of our Love to him,

I JOHN iv. 19. We love him, becaufe be firft loved us.

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After an introduction to an analization and explication of the words, and their fenfe given in a doctrinal obfervation, the following topics are discoursed, viz.

1. God's love to his people evinced,

2. The faints love to God opened,

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3. The influence his love hath upon ours, as the cause of it, illustrated, 30 4. The application of the whole in fundry uíes,

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The Militant's Song; or, the Believer's Exercise while here below,

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PSALM ci. 1. I will fing of mercy and judgment; unto thee, O Lord,

will I fing.

Here, after an introduction unto the fubject, and an analization of the text, four general topics are handled, viz.

1. What mercies the people of God meet with, and what it is in these that afford matter of a fong,

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2. What judgments the people of God meet with, and what it is in them that may be matter of a fong of praise,

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3. What this finging imports; and how we are to fing of mercy

and judgment,

4. The reafons why it is fo ordered by the Lord, that his people should have ground to fing both of mercy and judgment,

5. The application of the whole, in a variety of inferences,

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