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1. There is need of great care, heedfulness, watchfulness, and cir-

cumspection, for a due continuance in our profession to the glo-

ry of God, and advantage of our own souls,

2. Godly jealousy concerning, and watchfulness over the whole

body, that no beginnings of backslidings from Christ and the

gospel be found amongst them, is the duty of all churches of

believers,

3. It is the duty of every individual believer to be intent on all

occasions, lest at any time, or by any means, there should be

found in them an evil heart of unbelief,

Unbelief rejects the peculiar doctrines of the gospel; such as,

(1.) That Jesus of Nazareth, poor and despised as he was in

the world, was the Son of God, the Saviour of the world, and

is both Lord and Christ,

(2.) That by the obedience, death and blood-shedding of this

same Jesus, who was crucified and slain, is redemption, forgive-

ness of sins, deliverance from the wrath to come, righteousness,

and acceptation with God, to be obtained, and by him only,

(3.) That the way and means whereby forgiveness of sin, righte-

ousness and acceptance with God for sinners is attained by this

Jesus Christ, is, that by the sacrifice of himself, his death and

blood-shedding, with the punishment for sin which he volunta-

rily underwent, God was atoned, his justice satisfied, and bis

law fulfilled; and that because he had ordered, in his infinite

wisdom and sovereignty, with the will and consent of Christ

himself, to charge all the sin of all the elect upon him, and to

accept of his obedience for them, he undertaking to be their

Surety and Redeemer,

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VERSE 14.

vers,

!. Many hear the word or voice of God to no advantage but only
to aggravate their sin,

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VERSE 17.

VERSE 18.

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