Senn. 25; How are we compleat in drift? 573 But Chrifi is all to free us from thefe dangers, to carry us through thefe opp,fìiong who bath led captivity captive, Ephef. 4.8. who hath an powers, and triumphed over them, Co1.2. 15. but yet even this deliverance is at prefent incompleat ; for though Chrilf hash delivered believers from Satan as a deftcoyer, yet not from Satan as a tempter, he may difquiet fuck but he cannot ruin them. 4, The difturbances And interruptions of a prophase world, its allurements, difcouragements, promifes, threats, finites, our difficulties and dangers from hence cannot be little,- fince the people of God in all ages have found them fo great : the great ad_ van age which all thefe ou.ward things have againft us, is their fu tablenefs to our fenfts ; for though believers are faid to live by faith, Heb. 10,38. yet-the belt of men have had fomethingto wit - nefs they were but men Gf like pal ons ; as'cwas faid of Elias , James zoom 5.17. but Chris ¿sal to tree us from thefe dangers 70h.16.33. Ile.of good cheer I have ovrrcome the world ; He bath overcome it for uo, and in forne meafure in us. 2. Chrifl is AU, to fill the fouls of believers with all that good which may capacitate and qualifie them for happinefs : it is the decree of Heaven, that none be admitted into glory, but thole on whom God bath wrought the truth of grace ; Heaven muff firftbe brought down into our fouls, before our fouls are capable of a fcend- ing up thither : we mull firfi be made meet, before we can partake of that inheritance of the Saints in light, Col, i.12. with Ephef. 5..5. we are by nature unmeet, becaufe we are carnali and earthly; and fhould God difpence with his own decree, and open f) wide a door unto Heaven and happinef,, as to lec in carnali and fenfuall perlons, Heaven would be no Heaven unto fuch, carnall hearts can never reilifh the fmeetnefs of fpirituall enjoyments, Philofophers ob- Rora.8.6,7. ferve, that all delight arifes from a fuitablenefs betwixt the perfon and the obj.c`t. What is the reafon of that diverfity of delights Which is among the children of men, ti a: which is one mans joy is another mans grief, and that which is one mans pleafure is another mans pain? the onely reafon is, becaufe of the diverfìty of tempers and difpofitions : Some there be of fuch a bruitifh and fwinifh tem- per, that nothing is fo pleating unto them as w.allowirg in the mire of their fcrifualities : others again of fo refined a temper that they _elleem thefe fenfuall pleafures very low:and much beneath them, but It'll every mans delight is according to his temper and difpofition., Dddd ti and
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