Spiritual Perfec` ion. hard to keep) but that only leads to Eter- nal Life. The Kingdom of Heaven is to be taken by violence , and the Wrath to come efiap'd by flight. 'Tis better to take pains than to fuffer Pains : The Cords of Duty are more eafie than the Chains of Darknefs. 2. There is nothing in Religion infu- perable to the Love of God, and of our Souls. Love is not cold and idle, but ardent and aáive in purfuit of its Ob- jet. There arc many Inifances that re- folved Diligence will overcome great ob- ftacles to the defigns of Men. Demo- flhenes the Athenian, was the moíf un- qualified for an Orator of a thoufand His Breath was fo fhort, that he could not fpeak out a full Sentence ; his Voice and Pronunciation was fo harfh, and his Aaion fo ungrateful and offenfive to the molt delicate Senfes, the Eye and Ear, that the firft time he fpake in the pub- lick Afí'embly, he was entertained with Derifion , and the fecond with Difdain by the People ; yet by unwearied Indu- ftryy and Exercife, he corrected his de- fah, and became the molt Eloquent and Perfe& Orator that ever flourifh'd in Greece. Now can there be any fo. diffi- cult heigth in Religion, but a ftrong re- folution, join'd with confequent endea yours, and the fupernatural affiffance of the 34S
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