Spiritual Perfect-lion. Difgrace can make Contemptible, no Mifery can make Miferable. It has a Soveraign Strength to fupport us under all the Evils Malice can do, and Inno cence fuEfer. Now if the hope of Hea- ven can make all the Evils of this World tradable and eafie, much more will it make all its good things defpicable : for we are far more capable of afili&ing Impreffons than of joyful. Set the Beam right, and put into one Scale all the Treafures and Honours and Delights of the prefent World ; and in the other the lively Hope of Heaven, they are of no more value or moment in Compari- fon, than Feathers in one Scale, againff Talents of Gold in another. 'Tis true Carnal Men feel not the attraaive Force of the bleffed Rewards above , for 'tis Spiritual and Future but when they (hall be releas'd from the narrow Con- finement of FIelE, and (hall underfland things by another way than the report of theSenfes, their inlightned aaive Spi- rit will tear and torment them for pre- ferring vanifliíng fhadows before Subílan- tial and Eternal Bleffednefs the Senfe of it will caufe extreme Sorrow for their lofs ofHeaven, and Indignation for othersob. taming it Our Saviour tells the Infidel en's,Whenye ¡hallfee Abraham,Ifaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of God, and your 'dyes
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