tJ,nd perpetual/ quitle. ,. repentance, and fincerit-ie; he growes from ver– tue to vertue , from knowledge to knowledge, from grace to grace , untill bee become a perfe8 Ep&. 4 • 13 , miln inChrift le{ ~M$ It maybe,as the fairefi Sunne may forneumes be over-caft, and darkened with Clouds, and Mifis ; ·fo the holineffe of a godly man may be over-clouded and difgraced fome-· times, by falls into a finne, upon infirmitie, ignorance, heedlefneife, or the like : But, if he be fo overtaken; after his palling through forrow and griefe_of heart for the fa~e,and his rifing~gaine , by tepentan~e 3 bee fumes farre more brtghtly and pleafantly both to God and man,in finceritie and all holy graces; ht: afterwards runnes a more {wift and fetled courfe in the race offanltification. So that·ordinarily all Gods children fhine "Piii/,1., IS'~ As Lights in the world, in the miaft of 11 naughtieand · crookedgeneration-, being orice inlightened with . faving knowledge) ana they fiill waxe brighter and brighter, untill at laft they come to fhine as the hrightntj[e of the .FiimAment, and theStarres 'Dm~.u.3~ in Heaven, for ever and et:er. Looke to it then, \ I .befcech you : whofoever bath alreadie given his Name unto Chrift,tafted of the good Word of God, and received into hisfoule fame glimpfes of heavenly Light ; let him be fure .to follow hard towards the Marke, for the Prize of the 1 high calling of God, in Chri!l: Iefus: Let him fet his befl: delires, affeCtions, and endeavours, to grow and proceed in all holy knowledge, in tl1e Light of Gods Word, and chearefull obe· dience unto the fame. For it is a fpeciall note J . (d 4) . and
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