Baxter - Houston-Packer Collection BT770 .B39 1670

TheEpiftle Dedicatory. of anorher world, with the wifdom of a forefeeing man, till he is going out ofthis, fecurus quo pes ferat, atque ex tempore rvivit, ut Perf. , quibws in lobo rviirvendi caufa palato Jiro. When fuch fenfual fouls mutt be dragg'dout of their pampered corrup- tible flefh, to divine revenge, and gowith the beginnings of endlefs horrour to the world where they might have found everlafting refl.; what joy will then be the portion of mortified and patient Believers, whole Treafures, and Hearts, and Conver- p fations in Heaven, are now the foretafte of their poffelíipn, ;as the Spirit of Chriff which caufeth this, is the feal ofGod, and the pledge and earñeft of their inheritance. If a. fleth-pleafing life in a dark, diflra6ted, bruitifh world, were better than a life with God and Angels, methinks yet they that know they cannot have what they would, thould make fure of what they may have; And théy that cannot keep what they love, Ihould learn to torve what they may keep. Wonderful! ífupidity ! That they who fee, that carrying dead bodies to the grave, is as common -a work, as theMidwifes take, ing childn into the world, and that the life

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