37S 3:»zParittonv ofM e Zibu tatt ibutZe Chap. 19. the Llnderianding and Will,and all the actions depend- ing on them. It chafes away Error, and Vice, and Ha- tred, and !beds abroad Light and Love, Purity and Peace ; and forms on Earth a lively reprefentationof that pure Society that is in Heaven. The Endof it is to render men like the Angels in Holinefs, that they may be fo in Bleffednefs. This will render it amiable toall that confider it without Paillon. And 'tis worthy of obfervation, that although many Heathens and Here- ticks have contradicted other parts of the ChriflianReli- gion ; yet none have dar'd openly to condemnthe Moral part ofit. TheEffect of the Gofpel bath been anfwerable to the Deign. One main differencebetween the old and new Law, is, that the old gave the knowledgof Rules with- out power to obferve them ; the new that is attended with the Grace of Chrift, enables us by a holy Love to pe form that which the other made menonly to under- Rand. Of this we have the molt fenfible Evidence in the .Primitive Church, that was produc'd by the firfl beams of the Sin of Righteoufnefs, and had received the firft fruits of the Spirit. What is more wonderful and worthyofGod, than that perfect Love which made all the firfi Believers to have one Heart and one Soul What greater contempt of theWorld canbe imagined, than the voluntary parting withall their Goods in con- fecrating them toGod for the reliefof the Poor r And. the Churches of theGentiees, while the Blood ofChrift was warm,andHisAäions frefh in the memories ofmen, were exemplary in Holinefs. They were its Stars fhin -. ing in a p.erverfe generation. Thete was fucka bright nefs in their Converfations that it pierc'd through the darknefs ofPáganifm, and madea vifible difference be- tween them and all others. Their wo.tds and actions- were fo full ofZeal for the. Glory ofGod, of Chaftity,.. Tim -.
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