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in their doubts and difficulties: so is our Lord Jesus appointed a counsellor; and all who want their spiritual doubts resolved, and their spiritual grievances redressed must apply unto him. All things whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, says Christ, believing ye shall receive. Matt xxi 22. This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased: Hear ye him As Pharaoh commanded the Egyptians, when in want of corn to go to Joseph, so ’tis the duty of all under all their wants and pressures to apply unto the Lord Jesus Christ He is appointed Heaven's trustee, to let out all blessings upon sinners: and I can assure you that whoever of you shall, by faith, apply unto our spiritual Joseph, whatever your wants and necessities be, ye shall undoubtedly get them all supplied. Whatever your grievances are, come to Jesus and you shall get them all redressed (illegible text)'!is said here, that Moses led his flock to the back side of the desert; and in this he is remarkably a type of Christ: for he leads his people to the desert of conviction and humiliation You read in Acts ii that he led three thousand persons to this desert one day, and upon their coming there, led them also to mount Sion, where they got a discovery of Jesus Christ (illegible text) their only Saviour. Again, Moses came to (illegible text) the mountain of God Wherein may ye say was he in that typical of Christ? Horeb and Sinai are but one mount some writers are of opinion that they are two tops of one and the same, mountain. Unto this mountain Moses came. Even so our Lord Jesus Christ came to mount Sinai, and there took upon him all their curses that were pronounced from that black mountain, and bore all that wrath and punishment, that law and justice threatened, in the room and stead of his people O sirs, you that perhaps just now are scorched with the fiery flashes that issue from mount Sinai come to Jesus and you shall get these quenched by his blood.

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