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Ninthly, to be amongst Gods people is a blessed ¹thing, because they have so many privileges from God: every one desires to join with such societies as have great privileges; now Gods people have such as are very great, Psal. 87. 3. Glorious things are spoken of thee, O City of God! What glorious things? They have glorious privileges; What are they? To them are committed the Oracles of God, as the Apostle reasons for the Church of the Jews; So to every Church of God, is committed the Oracles and the Ordinances of God, and those Offices for the dispensation of the mysteries of God; which were the great gift, that Christ triumphingly ascending to Heaven gave, and surely that gift must needs be great. The benefit but of one Ordinance, the Ministry of the Word, dispensed rightly, is made an argument by God himself, for the comfort of his people, ⟨p. 262⟩in all their adversities, Isaiah 30. 20, 21. And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy Teachers be removed any more into a corner, but thine eyes shall see thy Teachers. The word in the Ministry of it, in the the right way, is a great blessing: When Chrysostom ²was banished, many godly people were so grieved, that they professed it were more sufferable for the Sun to withdraw his beams, and so be darkened, then for the mouth of Chrysostom to be stopped. If this one Ordinance be so blessed, what a blessing then is the enjoyment of all, and that in a right way?

Ninthly, to be amongst Gods people is a blessed ¹thing, because they have so many priviledges from God: every one desires to joyn with such societies as have great priviledges; now Gods people have such as are very great, Psal. 87. 3. Glorious things are spoken of thee, O City of God! What glorious things? They have glorious priviledges; What are they? To them are committed the Oracles of God, as the Apostle reasons for the Church of the Jews; So to every Church of God, is committed the Oracles and the Ordinances of God, and those Offices for the dispensation of the mysteries of God; which were the great gift, that Christ triumphingly ascending to Heaven gave, and surely that gift must needs be great. The benefit but of one Ordinance, the Ministery of the Word, dispensed rightly, is made an argument by God himself, for the comfort of his people,