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SERMONS.

SERMON I.

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EXODUS XXIII. 30.

BY LITTLE AND LITTLE I WILL DRIVE THEM OUT FROM BEFORE

THEE, UNTIL THOU BE INCREASED AND INHERIT THE LAND."

THE typical resemblance between Israel after the flesh, and the Church of Christ, is too generally admitted and familiar to require any formal proof or elaborate illustration. Their election to be a people unto the Lord, their original captivity, their miraculous redemption from bondage, their wanderings in the wilderness, the enemies by whom they were surrounded, God's mercies towards them, the deliverances he wrought out for them—and, on the other hand, their ingratitude, perverseness, unbelief, rebellion-all these circumstances find their precise counterpart in the history of the universal church, and in the experience of

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