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FOR THE

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HEAVY-LADEN:

PROMISED

By our only Lord and Saviour

JESUS CHRIST

TO ALL

SINCERE BELIEVERS,
Practically Difcourfed upon.

By CLEMENT ELIS,
Rector of Kirkby, in Nottinghamshire.
Author of Christianity in short.

HEBR. iv. 1. Let us therefore fear, left a Promise
being left us of entering into his Reft, any of you
fhould feem to come fhort of it.

LONDON:

Printed by J. FULLER, Bookfeller, in Blow-
bladder-ftreet, Cheapfide; and S. NEALE,
Bookfeller, in Chatham. M.DCC.LVI.

TO THE

READERS.

WHEN the charitable Samaritan

found the poor Man lying

wounded by the Way-fide, and ready to die for want of prefent Help: bis Compaffion might poffibly have come too late, had it faid for Ceremony. Had be fpent his Breath in Complements, and trifled away the Time to usher in his Kindnefs with many fine Words; bad be flood excufing his Boldness or his too much Officioufnefs, apologizing for his Weakness, or with a great deal of Rhetorick, courting the poor dying Soul to accept of Life: However, we (who know better how to talk than to do good) might now call him Modifh, He that fo much needed bis Help, would have thought him idle and impertinent, and more a Courtier,

than