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A Funeral Sermon,

Preach'd on the

Death of Mr. Stephen Godfrey of Iflingham, from Jude 24.

Wherein is fomething of the Special Grace of Father, Son, and Spirit, fet forth. And the great Ability of Jefus Chrift, as GoD-Man, to keep his People from falling, and to prefent them Faultlefs before the Prefence of his Glory with exceeding Joy.

By THOMAS ROYSTON,

Paftor of a Congregational Church of Chrift at Burwell and Cattling in Cambridgefire.

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Ephef. 2. 7, 8. That in the ages to come he might herv the exceeding riches of 'his grace in his kindness towards us through Chrift Fefus. For by grace are ye faved through faith, and that not of your felves, it is the gift of God. Heb. 7. 24, 25. But this man because he continuetb ever, bath an unchangeable priesthood. Wherefore he is able alfo to fave them to the uttermoft that come unto God by kim, feeing he ever lives to make interceffion for them.

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Courteous, Chriftian Reader. Commend this fmall Mite of my Labour unto thy ferious Confideration, hoping that thou wilt read it will that Charity Spoken of in 1 Cor. 13, 4, 5, 6, 7 verfes; for withut it, I know it it will be contemned, because of he meanefs of the Author, and I will affure I am fo fenfible of my own Weakness, "that never defign'd to have expofed it in this Manr, bad I not believed what the LORD faid unPaul, 2 Cor. 12. 9. That his Grace is fufficient. r me, and that his Strength is made perfect in Teakness. And bad I not been first defired by e of the Daughters of our deceafed Friend, bo could not be at the bearing of it, therefore as defirous of a Copy of it; but I told her I uld not do that, because I did not preach by otes: But he being defirous of fomething of it, told her I would collect fomething of the Subance of it, which I did, with no other Defign

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or Thought but to gratifie her Defire. But it be ing known what I was about, I was defired by fome Friends that did not hear it preach'd, to read it unto them, which being done, they great ly defired me to print it; but I always thought my Abilities too mean to appear in this Manner unto the Eyes of the World, who love and gar at fine Language to please the Senfes. But I am for Plainnefs of Speech, as Paul was, I Cor. 4, 5, 6, 7. For I know that the world by wisdom knows not Gon, and that he is pleafed by the foolishness of preaching (that is, by plainnefs Speech in Preaching) to fave them that believe 1 Cor. 1, 21.

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For thereby GOD is glorified, and the Crea ture debafed, which is my Aim and End in thi Work, even that GOD the Father, GOD the Son and GOD the Spirit, might be exalted, w abundant Grace is here a little touched upon and the great Ability of Jefus Chrift, as Gor Man. I believing that the Son is GOD in al the Perfections of the Godhead, as there a littl have fhewn, and that he was Man, really in the most fubftantial Properties of Humanity Before the World was made, the he had no Flesh and Blood until he took it of the Virgin and it was that only which he took of her; it is no where, that I can find, faid, That he i the Incarnation was made Man, he being fo be fore, but Fleth; And the Word was made Fle John 1. 14. the Word here is the Son, that ba the Man, a created or reafonable Soul fet up,

united, or that did fubfift in fuch a Union as 'to be One, fo as never to be otherwife: Therefore the Word is faid to be made Flefh, which cannot be that the Godhead was converted into Flefh; but the Man united, or the Soul that was united unto the Godhead comes down into the Flefh or Body that he took of the Virgin, or that Body that was prepared for him, and fo he was the Seed of the Woman, and of Abraham and David's Seed. This is the Flesh that the Man, or the created Me, or the I fet up, was united to, and this Man being possessed by the Godhead, or united thereunto, is in the Incarnation made or united unto Flesh. Reader, confider well of this Matter, it may be thou mayft think this is ftrange, novel Doctrine, that cannot be true, because it may seem contrary unto the general receiv'd Notion of this Matter, and thou mayft fay, How can it be? It is fo abfurd, and has fo many Contradictions in it! hall refer to what is said Page 20, &c, altho' there. is but little faid for want of room, that might be abundantly open'd and proved from abundance of Scriptures, for they are full of this Doctrine of the Man in GOD before he took Flefh. See a few, Gen, 18, 2, 3, Chap. 32. ver. 24. Jofhua 5, 13, 14, 15. Judges 13, 6, 8, 10, 11. PL. 80. 17. Pf. 1. 1, 2, 3. Ifai. 32. 2. Chap, 66, ver. 2, 3. Ezek 1. 2. Chap. 9. ver. 2, 11. 24. Chap. 7. ver. 13. 8. ver. 15, 16. 5, 6. Zech. 1. 8, 10. Chap. 6. ver. 12. is indeed of fo great Weight that it ought to be diftinct

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