Spiritual PerfeHion. 109 fhort continuance, as Nature left to it felfalways is : but the Supernatural State is not only undefil'd, but fades not away. The perfeaion of Paradife was frail, for Man in his belt 'late was changing from this Root his Ruin (prang : but the perfeaion of Heaven is immutable, for there God is all in all. His Influxive Pre- fence is the Produaive and Confervaa tive Caufe of their Holinefs andBleffed- nefs. I will now Confider the perfeaion of Grace that is attributed to the Saints in the prefent (late. i. There is an Effential perfeaion, that Confifts in the unchangable nature of things, and is abfòlutely requifite to the kind. A gradual perfèaion belongs to individuals, and is various : All Gold is not refin'd to the fame degree and heighth ofPurity : but true Gold though in the loweft degree of finenefs, will en- dure the Furnace and the Touchflone, and by that tryal is difcern'd fromCoun- terfeit Metal. There are dif érent de- grees of aaive heat in Fire : fometirnes it Flames, but always Burns, if fedwith Combuftible matter. Now the Effence of true Holinef confifts in a Conformity to the Nature and Will of God, whereby a Saint is qliflinguifht from theunrenewed Work!, and
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