Spiritual Perfegiorz. of hits, and the more clear revelatiors of his Love are communicated to us. The more we are freed from the chains of Sin, and bondage of Satan, the more joyful and glorious is our Liberty. In- deed, the Saints are fometimes in dark- nefs, but their Sorrows are from their defeas in Holinefs ; from their not im- proving the means of Grace, whereby they might rife to,Perfeaion : For as when Sadnefs oppreffes us, the vital Spi- rits retire to the Heart, and are ihut up in their fprings, that Nature does not perform its operations with delight ; fq when the Holy Spirit, the Eternal Com- forter, is grieved, by our quenching his pure Motions!, he withdraws his corn-7 forting Influences, and the Soul is left defolate. The Experience of all the Saints is a dernonftration, that Religion the more it faflens us to opr Duty, and toGod, by the bands of Love, the hap- pier we are and that the 'late of a re- newed Chriftian , is fo far from being gloomy and melancholy, that 'tis the joyful beginning of Heaven. By excelling in Holinefs, our future Glory will be increas'd. The life and order of Government confits in thedill perilingRewards and Punifhments. God will recompense the wicked according to the Rnle of Juítiee and their Defert ; and
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