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Excerpt from Sermons, on Various Important Doctrines and Duties of the Christian Religion: Selected From the Manuscripts of Several Ministers, Members of the Northern Association, in the County of Hampshire
When Abraham dwelt at Mamre, the Lord ap peared unto him and he fat in the tent door, in the heat of the day 5 and he lifted up his eyes and look ed and lo, three men ftood by him. And when he faw them he ran to meet them - and bowed himfelf toward the ground, and faid, my Lord. The Lord appear ed and Abraham looking faw three men. He bowed himfelf to them and faid my Lord. The Lord mult therefore have been one of the three men. They faid, fo do as thou halt faid. And they {aid unto him, where is Sarah thy wife. And he, (the Lord) faid, Iwill certainly return unto thee according to the time of life, and 10, Sarah thy wife fhall have a fon. In this manner they talked with Abraham, as the Lord and as the three men, evidencing that the Lord was one of the men. 4 thelord (aid fhall Ihide from Abraham the thing which I do? Becaufe the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great - I will go down now and fee - and the men turned their faces from thence and went toward Sodom but Abraham flood yet before the Lord, and interceded for that city, And there came two ana gels to Sodom at even. 4 The character in which the Lord appeared to Abraham, as a man and yet God hearing prayer, agrees to Chrift and to no other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.