6o The Life of GOD into a flame, which many waters !hall not quench, neither fhall the floods be able to drown it*. Whenever this day be– gins to dawn, and the day-fiar to ari.fe in the heart t, it will eafily -difpel ?the pow– ers of darknefs, and make ignorance and folly, and all the corrupt and felfi!h af':" . fections of men, flee away as faft before it as the iliades of night when the fun cometh out of his chan1bers: · for the path of the jufl is as the jhinh1g lig·ht, .-u:hic!J jhineth m,ore and more unto tbe perft[l d:zy ~t . They )hall go on from flrength to fl reng tb, till every one of thent appear bejo're God in Zion §. . Why fhould we think it in1poffible, that true goodnefs and uuiverfallove ihou ld ever come to fway and prevail in our foul s? Is not this their primitive fl:ate and con- _ dition, their native and genuine confiitu– tion as they came firft fron1 the hands of their n1aker? Sin and corruption are but ufurpers; and though they have long kept the poifeffion, yet from the beginning it '"Was not fo. That inordinate felf-love which one would think were rooted in our very being, and interwoven with the confiitution of our nature, is neverthelefs t< Cant . viii. 7• t 2_Pet. i. 19•. I t Prox. ~v. 18. §Pfal. lxxxiv. 7. of
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