An excellent sermon upon the great salvation. By that pious and worthy servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. Andrew Gray, late Minister of the Gospel in the city of Glasgow.

An excellent sermon upon the great salvation. By that pious and worthy servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. Andrew Gray, late Minister of the Gospel in the city of Glasgow.

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TO THE READER.

A SERMON Concerning the Great Salvation.

Four Hyms by another Hand. Suited to the holy Sabbath, and to be sung in Families

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HYMN II.

HYMN III.

An HYMN of Praise to the glorious REDEEMER.

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AN Excellent Sermon Upon the GREAT SALVATION.

By that pious and worthy Servant of JESUS CHRIST, Mr. Andrew Gray, Late Minister of the Gospel in the City of Glasgow.

BOSTON, Printed for Benjamin Gray, No. 2. at the Head of the Town-Dock. 1731.

TO THE READER.

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THis excellent Sermon comes to you upon the most important Errand that can possibly be, even to perswade you to embrace the great Salvation offered to you in the Gospel, by a glorious Redeemer: One would think few Arguments might perswade People to embrace a Blessing so much to their Pleasure, Profit and Advantage; but sad it is to see that the most inexpressibly glorious Things of the heavenly World are so slighted, neglected and despised by almost all the sinful Race of fallen apostate Man: And how much more strange that so many Arguments must be used and that to so little Purpose, to perswade Men to accept of such glorious Things as in the Word of God we are assured are prepared for, and shall certainly be given to the Embracers of this great Salvation. The Author who is now reaping the happy Fruits and Effects thereof, and beholding and enjoying the Blessings that doth accompany the same, has so sweetly and earnestly perswaded to the Embracement thereof, that I shall say no more, but look up to the God of all Grace for his Blessing upon the delightful, awakening, Soul comforting Discourse,

A SERMON Concerning the Great Salvation.

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HEB. II. 3.

How shall we escape if we neglect so great Salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him.

THERE are two great and most ordinary Complaints in these days. 1. There are many who complain, that their Estates and Persons are in Bondage, and that they are sold for slaves to the Hands of Strangers: But, O that we could also turn over the Complaint to this, that our Souls are in Bondage, and that we are yet in the Gall of Bitterness, and in the Bond of Iniquity, that so we might be provoked [Page] to long for the great Salvation that is in our Offer. 2. There are many complaining (and not without much cause) that there is now such a toleration of Errors: But O wilt thou complain also of this, that within thy Heart there is a Tolleration of Lusts; is there not an Act of Tolleration concluded within thy Breast, that the Devil and all his Company may reign in thee at Pleasure: Oh have ye not need of the great Salvation? Shall I tell you, that Christ is courting you to embrace it, and that he putteth all his most glorious Robes upon you, and manifesteth himself unto you, as a Suiter making offer of himself and of his great Salvation O tell me, Have ye seen him? Or do ye think to see him this Day? What Robes had he on? There are five glorious Robes wherewith he cloaths himself when he condescendeth to manifest himself to his people. First he cometh to his own with the Garments of Salvation, according to that Word, Zech. 9.9. Rejoice O Daughter of Sion greatly, shout O Daughter of Jerusalem: for behold, thy King cometh unto thee, he is just, and having Salvation; ay, your King is come here to day, and will ye not fall in love with him when he is cloathed with the Garments of Salvation, can ye ever have a more conquering Sight of Christ, then when he is cloathed with such an excellent Robe, and offering you Salvation. [Page] Secondly, He appeareth to his own in Garments died in Blood, according to that Word, Isai. 63.1, 2. Who is this that cometh up from Edom with [...]ed Garments in Blood, as one that treadeth the Wine fat. And now I say to thee that will not look to Christ, when he appears in the Garments of Salvation, have ye a Heart to refuse him that hath fought such a Combate for you, who hath trod the Wine-Press alone, and hath stained all his Garments with the Blood of thy Enemies; or is there any here who dare refuse his Salvation, when they see how he treadeth his Enemies in Anger, and trampleth them in Fury, and thus sprinkleth their Blood upon his Garments. O tremble at this Sight, and seek Quarter from him in time, or he shall dy his Garments with the Blood of thy immortal Soul. Thirdly, Christ appeareth unto his own, being cloathed with these humble Robes of Condescendency, when he came in the similitude of sinful Flesh: O what a Sight was that, to behold the Prince of Heaven cloathed with our Nature; What a Sight was that to behold him that was cloathed with Light as with a Garment, to be cloathed with our Infirmities, yet he condescended to cloath himself thus, that we might have access unto him, and be partakers of his Gifts: O can we refuse him, when love hath thus pressed him to put on the beggarly Weed that he might say to Worms, ye are my Brethren [Page]and my Sisters. Fourthly, Christ sometimes manifesteth himself, being cloathed with the Garments of Beauty, & ravishing Majesty; such was the Sight that the Spouse got of Christ, Cant. 2.3. As the Apple tree among the Trees of the Wood, so is my Beloved among the Sons. And 5.10. when she saw him, White and rudy, and the standard-bearer of ten thousand, and when such was the joyful Sight of him, when his Garments were as Light, and white as the Snow, which he had at the Transfiguration, when these glorified ones did come (as it were) Ambassadors from that higher House to make him a Visit. And fifthly, Christ he sometimes appeareth to his own in Robes of dreadful Majesty, and terrible Highness and Loftiness, when the Soul upon the first Sight of him remains dead, and there remains no more Life in them: Such was the Sight Daniel got in his 10. Chapter. And such was the Sight that John got of Christ, Rev. 1.17. And I would ask at all that are here, what a Sight have ye gotten of Christ to day, in which of all these Robes have ye seen him: It is true, we are not now to look for the extraordinary Sights of him; but yet if ever thou hast seen him in any of his woing Robes, surely he hath appeared Matchless, and how shall ye then refuse him.

[Page]But now to come to the Words I was speaking unto you of; The first thing in the Words, viz.

That there are many who live under the Offer of this great Salvation that do slight it, and do not embrace it.

And now, I shall only add a few things further unto you.

1. Let me propose a few Considerations to perswade you to embrace the great Salvation. God forbid we go away before we embrace this Gospel-Salvation: And therefore, I charge you in his Name, [...] not away before ye embrace it. And [...] press it home upon you, there are th [...] eight or nine Properties of this great Salvation, that is offered unto you this Day.

And first, It is a free Salvation, ye have no more ado, but to put forth your Hand and take it: O come and take it: Christ hath fought for this Salvation, and there is no more required of you, but to come and reap the Fruits of his Victory: Whoever will let him come, there is nothing that should move you to stay away, O Captives, Bond slaves to Satan, O Prisoners of Hope, will ye come and partake of the great Salvation, what holds you from coming away and partaking of it, it is freely offered unto you: ay, believe it, Christ requires no more of you, but that ye should come and take it out of his Hand; if ye consent to obey, the Bargain is ended▪ Ye shall eat the good of the Land, Isai. 1.

[Page]Secondly, This great Salvation, is a compleat Salvation, that is offered unto you to day; this is clear, Luke 1. [...]1. That we might be saved from our Enemies, and from the Hand of all that hate us. There is not any Enemy that is in thy Way, but if thou will come and partake of the great Salvation, thou may have Victory over it, so compleat a Salvation is it that is in your Offer this Day. O shall we pass away, and not embrace it: O shall our cursed Hearts undervalue compleat at Salvation that is come to your Door, believe [...] Salvation is near unto you, if ye will take [...]

Thirdly, It is a wonderful Salvation, it is such a Salvation as to pry into it, and it is such a Salvation that all the Prophets desired to pry into it; It is almost six thousand Years since all the Angels in Heaven fell into a Sea of Wonder at this great Salvation: It is almost six thousand Years since Abel fell into a Sea of Wonder at this great Salvation: And what think ye is his Exercise this Day? He is even wondering at this great Salvation: Would ye ask at all the Angels in Heaven, would they not all say, O embrace the great Salvation? Would ye ask at all the Saints that are above, would they not advise you to embrace the great Salvation? Would ye ask at Adam, would he not say, O embrace the great Salvation? Could ye ask at Abel, Would he not say, O embrace [Page] the great Salvation? And would not all the Patriarchs say unto you, O embrace the great Salvation? And do not all that have tasted of the Sweetness of it, [...] out unto you, Come and embrace the great Salvation.

The fourth Property of his Salvation is, that it was bought at an exceeding dear Rate, it is a dear Salvation. Would ye know the Difference between Christ's coming to this Salvation, and your coming to it, it is this: Christ was forced to travel through all the Armies of the Justice of God: He was forced to drink of the Cup of the Wrath of God, before he could come to purchase this great Salvation; and now what is required of you to obtain this, we may say no more, but put out your Hands and take it: Will ye look to the Price that was laid down for this Salvation, there is not a Wound in the Body of Christ, but it is said, This is a dear Salvation. There is not a Reproach Christ met with, but it saith, O is not this a dear Salvation! There is not a buffeting Christ met with, but it saith, O is not this a dear Salvation! There is not a Necessity that he was put into, but it saith, Is not this a great and dear Salvation? O Sirs, will ye not come and take this great Salvation, this dear Salvation. What must I give for it say ye? I say, ye must give nothing for it, come and take it without Money, and without Price; it was dear unto [Page] Christ, but it shall be cheap unto you. O is it not cheap to you, I assure you, if ye will come to the Market to buy the great Salvation, there is none of you that needeth to stand for the Price of it. O come and take, and have it, and there shall be no more prigging.

Fifthly, It is an everlasting Salvation, that ye shall enjoy the Fruits of throughout Eternity, as is clear, Heb. 9.13. He became the Author of eternal Redemption unto us. It is a Salvation that the Devil can never be able to take out of your Hand, if ye take it, ye shall never be robbed of it again. O come and partake of this great Salvation, whereby the Gates of Hell shall never prevail against you.

Sixthly, It is a noble and honourable Salvation, it is not to be taken out of one Slavery to another, but it is to be taken out of Prison that we may reign: Luke 1.71. compared with Verse 74. it is That we being saved, may serve him without Fear in Holiness and Righteousness, all the Days of our Life. I say, Come, come, and partake of this great Salvation, that your Glory may be increased, and that ye may be exalted above the Kings of the Earth.

Seventhly, It is a most advantageous Salvation What are the Advantages of any Salvation that are not to be found in this? Is there not Peace to be found through this Salvation? Is there not Liberty to be found through this Salvation? Is there [Page] not eternal Enjoyment of God to be found in this Salvation? Yea, all Salvations are in this one Salvation.

Lastly, It is a royal Salvation, for it cometh to us from and through the Son of God. Christ is the Author of it, and we conceive, Christ may be said to be the Author of this Salvation, in these Respects, 1. He is the meritorious Cause that did procure it, it was the Price of his Blood that was laid down for to purchase this great Salvation. 2. He is the Fountain from whence it floweth, according to that Word which we have cited, Heb. 5.9. He is the Author of eternal Salvation. 3. He is the Person that fitteth our Spirits for partaking of it, and it is he that removeth Mountains out of the Way, that we may have fair Access unto the great Salvation. 4. It is he that must perswade our Hearts to embrace and to take hold of it. He standeth without, and cryeth in to the Heart, to embrace the great Salvation; And he standeth within, making the Heart cry out; Content, I will embrace the great Salvation: He is indeed the Person that commendeth, and doth point forth this great Salvation unto us, he is the noble Minister of it, it began first to be preached by him.

Now, Is there any of you that have fallen in love with the great Salvation? That ye may try your selves, I shall give you some Evidences of the Persons that are [Page] near unto this great Salvation, 1. Is thy Estimation of the great Salvation increased, beyond what it was in the morning when thou came hither? Is thy Estimation of the great Gospel-Salvation a Foot higher than it was in the morning, I say unto thee, thou art not far from the great Salvation: Come away. 2. Is thy desire after the great Salvation increased beyond what it was in the morning? Hast thou stronger Desires after the great Salvation than before thou came hither? That is an Evidence thou art not far from it. 3. Is thy Thoughts of thy Necessity of the great Salvation greater than they were? Thinkest thou that thou hast more need of the great Salvation than ever thou thoughtest before. And is thy Opinion and Thoughts of saving thy self less than they were before thou camest hither? Art thou forced to cry out, None but Christ can save me? I say thou art not far from the great Salvation, Will thou come away? O that ye would once seal this Conclusion with much Heart-Perswasion, I am undone without Christ, I am undone without Christ, who is the Author of the great Salvation: Are there any of you that are sensible that ye are in the Fetters of Sin, and in the Bonds of Iniquity? Are ye brought to the Conviction of this, that ye are in the Gall of Bitterness? I say, if thou be brought to this Length, to be sensible of thy Bonds, and art crying out, O Redeemer, hasten and [Page]come away! I say, if thou be sensible of thy Bonds and Imprisonment, and crying out, O thou that was anointed from Eternity, to proclaim Liberty to the Captives, and the opening of the Prison to them that are bound. O hasten and come away, and redeem me, even poor me, sinking, sinning, perishing, self-destroying me, thou art not far from the great Salvation. 4. Art thou a Person who beginneth to weep because thou hast been so long a Stranger to Christ, and the great Salvation? Old Men that are here, how long have ye been Strangers to the great Salvation, and to the Author of it? Now will ye shed one Tear for your Estrangement, and cry out, Wo is me that Christ and I have been so long asunder? I say, if thou hast: come to that Length, thou art not far from the great Salvation, Come away: O pity your selves, make haste and come away.

But now in the third Place, Let me give you some Evidences by which ye may know more clearly whether or no ye have embraced this great Salvation, that ye may know your selves, and that ye walk not down to the Grave with a Lie in your right hand. The first Evidence of a Person that hath embraced the great Salvation, is, that he will have a high Esteem of the Saviour and Author of the great Salvation: Hast thou a matchless Esteem of matchless Christ the Saviour of the World, that is a speaking Evidence [Page] unto thee, thou art a Partaker of the great Salvation: Art thou come to this Length that thou criest out, None but Christ, None but Christ? It is a speaking Evidence that thou art come to be a Partaker of the great Salvation, when thou can cry out th [...] Word, Exod. 15.2. The Lord is my Strength and my Song, he alone is become my Salvation. If Christ hath become thy Salvation then it is like he hath become thy Song. I would ask this of you, were ye ever brought this Length, that ye durst not adventure to praise Christ alone, but was forced to call in all the Creatures, and say, O magnify the Lord with me, O that is an Evidence that ye have embraced his Salvation.

Secondly, Those who have embraced the great Salvation will study to maintain and keep their Hold of it, they will study to hold fast so precious a Jewel, this is press'd, Gal. 5.1. Stand fast in the Liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free. Yea, they will study to walk suitably to to this noble Mercy, at least they will strive and endeavour to do it, as is also press'd in that same Verse. I say, if thou hast been made a Partaker of the Gospel of Salvation, thou wilt strive to keep thy self from the Power of these Things that once triumphed over thee.

Thirdly, A Person that is a Partaker of the great Salvation will have a high Esteem of this Mercy and Salvation; so [Page] Paul when he speaketh of it here, he cannot but put some Note of Excellency to it, calling it, the great Salvation. Therefore, I say, if thou hast embraced the great Salvation, thou wilt have so high Esteem of it, not to be subjected to it as thou should, or to be in Subjection to the Power of thy Lust in any Measure, will be his Burden and Affliction; the Man will be sorry when he is brought forth from the House of his Bondage, unto the Red-Sea; he will be sorry, that when he should have Songs of Triumph over his Idols put into his Mouth, that they should sing Songs of Triumph over him.

Fourthly. A Person that hath embraced the great Salvation, he will be longing sometimes for the Day when this Salvation shall be compleat, when he shall sing that Song, with that numberous Multitude which cannot be numbered, Rev. 7.9. O what a Day shall it be, when thou shall begin to sing that Song: After this (saith he) I beheld, and lo, a great Multitude of all People, which no Man could number, of all People, Nations and Languages stood before the Throne, and before the Lamb, cloathed with white Robes, and Palms in their Hands, and they cryed; and how cryed they? They cryed with a loud Voice: they would not mutter the Song, nor sing silently, but cryed with a loud Voice: and what did they cry? they cryed with a loud Voice, Salvation unto our God, who [Page]sitteth upon the Throne, and to the Lamb. I would only ask at you that are Partakers of the great Salvation, What Songs shall be put into thy Mouth, when the Waters of Jordan shall divide themselves, that the ransomed of the Lord might pass thorow? when thou shall sing that Song, Psal. 115.1. Not unto us, not unto us, but unto thee belongeth the Glory of our Salvation. O what a Day shall that be, when that excellent Song shall be put in thy Mouth; yea, what a Day shall it be, when thou shalt be cloathed with these excellent Garments that are made mention of, Isai. 6.10. for he hath cloathed thee with the Garments of Salvation, and he hath covered thee with the Robe of Righteousness O what Robes are these? Did ye ever see such excellent Robes as these must be? I think we shall not know our selves; O do you not think we shall not know our selves, when we shall put on these excellent Robes? Now therefore, is the Bargain closed; or will ye go away before ye take this great Salvation? Dare ye go out at these Doors and neglect the great Salvation? I would ask this of you, Think ye it will not be most sad, that Christ should tell this in Heaven of you to night, I was preached to a pack of Stones, that none of them would love me? Will ye not be afraid that this Report shall be carried back to Heaven of you? For what Report can Christ carry back [Page] but this? Now is the Cord of this great Salvation let down unto you, is there none of you that will take a hold of it, O will ye seek after it, will ye make this a rejoycing Day in Heaven, that is a fasting Day unto you, and the Way to make it so, is to embrace the great Salvation. Now what say ye to it old Men? Let me speak to you, and ask your Thoughts of the great Salvation, Gray Hairs should be a Crown of Glory, if it be found in the Way of Righteousness, old Men speak your Minds, that young Men may not have your bad Example: What say ye of this Salvation? Is it not a most glorious Salvation, is it not a most excellent Salvation that is in your Offer? I intreat you speak your Minds, tell Christ ye are content to take the great Salvation; otherwise, whoever he be that will not partake of this Gospel Salvation; I in the Name and Authority of Christ our Master, denounce eternal and irrevocable War against him. Put on your Harness, ye shall not boast when ye put it off again, the Wrath and Fury of God shall come upon you to the uttermost if ye embrace not this great Salvation: other Wars are but for a time: the greatest Captains that ever the Earth did carry, are now laid down in the sides of the Pit, and their Swords broken under their Heads. Armies of ten hundred thousand, a hundred Years Time have laid them all in their Graves, and ended all [Page] their Contests, but there is no Discharge of his War that shall be concluded betwixt Christ and you, it shall become an eternal and most terrible War, which shall be but beginning when Time is ended: Now Peace or War, which of them will ye choose? Dare ye send a Charge to Christ, and say ye will defy him? I am afraid there will be two Things that many of us shall report to day. First, I am afraid there will be many that will give Pharaoh's Report to the offer of the great Salvation, and say, Who is the Lord that I should obey him? I tell you who he is, He is glorious in Holiness, fearful in Praises, doing Wonders. O embrace him before he go hence, and give not Pharaoh's Report, lest ye be drowned in the Sea of his Wrath, whence there shall be no Recovery.

Secondly, I fear there will be many here to day that will give Demas's Report to this precious Offer: I will go and forsake Christ, and embrace this present World: O bad Exchange! cursed be he that shall make it, will ye be of Demas's Humour? I fear there hath been many of that Humour of a long time: but I intreat you once to be wise before ye die. I confess that Proverb old Fools, are twice Fools; I think old Men that will not embrace the great Salvation, I think ye are triple Fools? What wait ye for? Is there any thing can afford you any Satisfaction [Page] but this great Salvation? Now are ye convinced old Men, that Christ is waiting for your Answer? I intreat you before ye go hence, speak your minds, what ye think of the great Salvation; Is it not a lovely Salvation, is it not lovely now? What say ye to it? I am to go away, and the Offer is to be taken up at this time, and it is hard to say if ever ye shall have an Offer again. I would only say this to you, and be sure of it, though I should never be a Partaker of this great Salvation, yet I shall be a Witness against you that are not Partakers of it; I tell and declare unto you, I shall be a Witness against you if ye embrace not the great Salvation: Now old Men are ye perswaded to embrace it, Let me obtest you by the Beauty of Christ, come and partake of the great Salvation, ye that are travelling upon the Borders of Eternity. Now if ye will give no more, give this, will ye go home and think upon it; I shall not be uncharitable, nor enter to judge your Thoughts: I fear there shall be many declared and found Guilty among us, that we declared unto Heaven we will not embrace the great Salvation, but have trod the Blood of the Son of God under Foot. Now I intreat you, every one of you ask at your selves if ye be the Persons that will presume in your Hearts to do so. Now I shall leave it with you, let it not be a Witness against you. I shall [Page] leave it with this. O come away, old Men, young Men, old Women, and Maids, come and embrace this precious Gospel Salvation. Ye may say, ye bid us come; but we cannot come. I desire no more of you, but to come with this; Lord I am content to come, but I cannot come. Come once to that, for if once ye be content to receive it, it will not be long before ye be able to receive it: Now shall Christ depart, and will none of you say ye are content to take him? Will ye charge your own Consciences with this, am I content to take Christ and the great Salvation. O blest, blest, blest, be he that is the Author of the great Salvation, and blest be he that gets any of the Ends of the Cord of the great Salvation, that we sink not under the Wrath and Fury of the Lord; Come and embrace this great Salvation, and again I say, come and embrace it: For what can ye want if ye have it? I shall say no more, but close with that Word, Isai. 62.21. Behold, the Lord hath proclaimed to the Ends of the World, to those that are far off: what hath he proclaimed? Say ye to the Daughter of Sion, behold thy Salvation cometh, behold it cometh. I say to you that are the Ends of the World, Salvation is brought near unto you: Stout-hearted and far from Righteousness, the great Salvation is brought near unto you, and will ye send it away? O consider what ye are doing. And to him that can perswade you to embrace the great salvation, we desire to give praise.

Four Hyms by another Hand. Suited to the holy Sabbath, and to be sung in Families

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WHEN I ascend the lofty Throne

Where God my great Creator stands,

I must admire, I must adore,

The God who made both Sea and Land;

And when the glorious Host I see

With vailed Faces round the Throne,

With the innumerable Saints,

Before his Feet I cast my Crown.

O who is there that can conceive

How the eternal God should move

On Wings of Mercy, Love and Grace,

In his Eternity of Love!

O how secure his Counsel stands,

To our apostate fallen Race,

In his sweet Bowels of Peace and Love,

From the Eternity of Days.

Before the Mountains were brought forth,

Or he had form'd the Sea or Land,

His Love was flowing forth to us

Apostate Sons in foreign Land,

According to his bless'd Decree,

The lovely Lord Redeemer came,

And by him Life to us was given,

Even by the Lamb that once was slain.

HYMN II.

AWake my Soul, wake up and rise,

Behold the breaking rending Skies,

[Page]Proclaim our glorious Christ is near,

With every Scourge, and Wound and Scar.

We're not come forth this Day to see

A Reed that's shaken like a Tree,

With every blast of Wind or Storm,

That can so weak a Thing alarm:

But here the great Redeemer stands,

With pierced Side and wounded Arms,

With wounded Hands, and wounded Feet,

With bloody Agonies and Sweat,

Inviting all now to receive

This precious Christ, this God of Love,

Hark O my Soul! how loud he cries,

Enough to rend the Azure Skies,

Behold me now your dying Lord,

Welcome the Joys I now afford,

Justice aloud for Blood did cry,

The Debt is paid your Lord did die.

Behold me now, even me once more,

So what for you I did endure,

And all your lovely Christ demands

Is kind Acceptance at your Hands.

HYMN III.

THE Lord of Life in bright array

Now in his Glory stands,

His Word gives light unto the Day,

And shines through distant Lands:

The Time, the blessed Time is come,

When pleasant Birds shall sing,

When tuneful Notes of Turtle-Dove,

Proclaim the blissful Spring:

The pleasant Harvest now is come,

When lovely Fields appear

[Page]With all their Blades fill'd full and ripe,

To crown the passing Year.

In Lustre doth the Gospel shine,

Dark Clouds are pass'd away,

The Glories of a lovely Christ

Proclaim him every Day.

His Word, that golden Word of his,

Now in it's Lustre shines,

And Grace and Mercy, Peace and Love,

Fills all it's passing Lines;

And what remains but that we look

Soon from Mount Sion's Hill,

A glorious Christ in Might will come,

Not silent be nor still.

A mighty Fire with his Breath,

Enkindled shall flame,

And quite consume out of his Sight,

Proud Antichrist his Name.

His precious Jewels he will take,

And bind them up secure,

Till he destroys proud Antichrist

And quite consumes the Whore.

An HYMN of Praise to the glorious REDEEMER.

THOU lovely art my dearest Lord,

And art ador'd by all above,

Who sing the Glories of thy Name,

And Wonders of redeeming Love.

There's none in Heav'n that can compare,

There's none or Earth like to our King

[Page]To thee our blessed dearest Lord,

A tribute now of Thanks we bring.

My dearest Lord, What's here on Earth?

My lovely Christ, What's there in Heav'n?

But what thy blessed Word hath made,

And boundless Mercy freely giv'n.

If all the Universe should count,

And Figures joyn till Time should End,

They could not set the Glories forth,

Of my sweet Jesus, my dear Friend.

To Father, Son and Holy Ghost,

The great Eternal God of Host,

Be Honour, Praise and Glory giv'n,

By all on Earth, and all in Heav'n.

FINIS.

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An excellent sermon upon the great salvation. By that pious and worthy servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. Andrew Gray, late Minister of the Gospel in the city of Glasgow.

Gray, Andrew, 1633-1656.

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Editorial practices

EEBO-TCP is a partnership between the Universities of Michigan and Oxford and the publisher ProQuest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by ProQuest via their Early English Books Online (EEBO) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). The general aim of EEBO-TCP is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic English-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in EEBO.

EEBO-TCP aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org).

The EEBO-TCP project was divided into two phases. The 25,363 texts created during Phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 January 2015. Anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source.

Users should be aware of the process of creating the TCP texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data.

Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). If an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in NCBEL, then their works are eligible for inclusion. Selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so.

Image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. Quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in Oxford and Michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet QA standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. After proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. Any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. Understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of TCP data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor.

The texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the TEI in Libraries guidelines.

Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements).

Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site.