in the Soul of lvlan. 19 Thefe arc the higheft perfections that either n1en or .angels are capable of, the very foundation .of heaven laid in the foul. And he who bath attained then1, · needs not defire to pry in to the hidden rolls of God's decrees, or fearch ,the volumes of l1eaven, to know what is detern1ined ab-out his everlafiing conditiori; but he may find a copy of God's thoughts concerning hiln written in his own breafi. 1-Iis love to God n1ay give him a!furance of God's fa- . vour to him; and thofe beginnings of hap– pinefs which he feels in the confotn1ity of the powers of his foul to the nature of God, and compliance with his will, are a fure pledge that his felicity ihall be per– feCted, and continued to all eternity. And it is not without rcafon that one faid, I had rather fee the real impr~(fion if a God– like nature upon my own flul, than have a ,. vijion from beavt:n, qr at1 angel ftnt to tell me that my name 'were inrolled in the book of l~fe. When we have faid all that we can, the fecret n1yfl:eries of a new nad d . . 1. c Religion bet." ture an IVIne ne can never ter underbe fufficiently exprefied; lanftood by ac– guage and vvords cannot reach tions than by h words. t en1 ; nor can they be truly underfiood but by thofe fouls that are inkindlcd
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