Spiritual Per f eEfion, CHAP. The Perfec ion of Holinefs Confder'd. The Perfection of Innocence. The Perfetti- on of Grace. The Perfection of Glory. The Effential Perfection of Grace con- fills in Sincerity. Con.ftancy proceeds from it. Integral Perfection, Compara- tive Perfection, Intellectual and Moral. The threefold comparifon of Moral Per fection. Relative Perfection according to the Conditions of the Saints in this Life. Ahfolute Perfet`tion only attain'{l in Heaven. Now come to Difcourfe of the Per- feetion of Holinefs, the fublime Ob- jea and Aim of the Delires and Endea- vours of fincere Chriftians. I 'bail pre- mife there is a Threefold Perfeaion of Holinefs fpoken of in Scripture : The perfe&ion of Innocence, the perfeCtion of Grace, and thé perfeCtion of Glory. i. The perfeaion of Innocence. God made Man upright, in the bright Image of his Holinefi. The Excellency of the Efficient Caufe, infers the Excellency of the Effea : and the final Caufe was for his own Glory, and Man's Happinefs, in order to which he was endowed with thófe I07
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