thepromifes of veranèe, &c. 271 fhould be to know my heavenlyhopes better andmore fully,thatI might weane my feltthe morewillingly from all earthly vanities. Heaven is myhome, my hope, mine inheritance : and where íhould my heart be," hut where my treafure is ; where my thoughts, but where my hope is ? In this life I receive onely the fira fruits ofthe,Spirit, the carneflof the inheritance : but I will waite patiently for the full pofheflion thereof, and walke chearefully in the waythat leadeth ti.ercunto. Inearthly things men are contented to waite for a good leafe in revcrfon, and to lay out their money for that which (hall not come to their hands till fòme lives be expired : and fhouldnot I waite for the aecomplifhmentof glory, therebeing but one life betwixt it andmc, and that is mine owne ? CHAP. V. What it is to livebyfaith touching the premifes ofperfeverance, andhow toflirre up our felves there- unto. J®d' ofhis infinite mercy bath made furtherpromnifes, Godhatsmade (the neceffttytofhisfervants fo requiring, ) that his many promifer mercy (hall never depart from them,that he will confirme 9fperfeverance. & flrengthen them to theend, notwithflanding their own weaknefle,and the malice oftheir fpirituall enemies, and that nothing (hall feperate them from the love ofGod which is in Chrill Jefus. This is implied in the firfl pro- wife which God made,Itfhall6ruïfe thy head efr thouJhalt ; Gen.,.xg. bruit his heeler where Sathan is flirted to the heckofthe trueChriflian feed, In many paflages of Scripture the fame is moil clearely and manifcflly expreffed. He [hail P111.1.1. bee like a tree planted by the rivers ofwater, that bringcth Pfal.y2.13.14 forth hisfruit in hasfeafon, his leafealtofhall mot wither, and what-
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