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Ch. I I . Examples. Hebrews. The Fruits of Faith, Ch. r i Air, and Air incrafftte Fire, and Fire incrafiáte and fowas no more teen on Earth: for before VegetativeSpirit, and that incratlateintellefual it is recorded of him, that he pleated God, Spirit : And fo that all vifible Bodies are made who thus rewarded him. of invifible Spirit debafed, which again may Mu, x. That thoughEnoch died not by any be refined to invilibility. But diefe are the corruptionof his Body, no doubt ipur it had frothy dreamingPrefumptions of unhumbled filch change at its entrance into Heaven, as the Wits; and wifemen will refs in the meafure Bodies ofthe living Santa (hall have at Chrift's of God's Revelations. Second Coming (which proveth aziranfmutation By faith Abel offered unto God of Elements by Scripture Teffimony) and as 4. ÿ Chrift's ownBody had, which made it fuitable a more excellent facrifice then Cain, to the Heavenly Region ; for Fleth and Blood by which he obtained witnefs, that cannot enter into the Kingdomof God. It is he was righteous, God teflifying of his made a fpiritual incorruptible Body, as ours gifts and it he being dead e mall be. $ b y i c t y 2. It is like that this intimateth, how God fpeaketh. would have ufed, Man, if he had not by Cyr 4. By this Faith it was that Atel offer'd to coutraâed the.Guilt of threatned Death. God a more excellent, and therefore more at- ;. But it's certain that it is recorded to tell ceptable Sacrificeehatì Cain : by which he ob- us whither it is that Faith and Holinefsdotend, tain'd God's Judgment and Record, that he was and that there is a better Life. righteous (and fo far was j:dlified by it in God's account) God by fame notable Sign t;ewingç 6, But without faith it i! impofï'ible that when he rejected Cain's Offering, he ac- topleafe him : for he that cometh to cepted ,Abel's: And by this Sacrifice,and God's God mull: believe that he is, and that Attefiation, tho' his malignant Brother murder'd he isa rewarder of them that diligept- him, his Acceptance, recorded by God in Seri- 1 leek him. pture, yet fpeaketh his Honour and our Imita- Y tion. 6. Thefe that pleafe God muff needs be Note t. That .Abel's Faith producing his happy, for that is happine(s itfeif. But it is Offering, was not any other, but that for impartible to have a Heart or Life that pleafeth God, without a [rafting belief of thefe two Articles a t. That God is the very and only God, infinite in all Ferfetion ; 2. And that he is, as our Ruler. and Benefador, the full Rewarder of all them that with ftncere Dili- gence leek to pleafe him, in the obedienceof his governing Will, or hisLaw, revealed to them. Note; He that thinks there is no God, can neither love, [ruff, orobey him : And he that thinks he is impotent, ignorant, or bad, or any way imperfect, thinks that he is not God, and giveth him but the Name of God, while he denieth and blafphemeth him. And he that thinketh that he is not Man's Ruler morally by Law, but only phyfieallyby Motion, Iike life- left Engines, will never obey his Laws; and therefore will live after his Tufts, and be far worfe than favage Brutes, as abating a nobler Nature. And he that thinks that God will let, Men be lofera by their molt softly anddiligent Obedience, takes him to be noseofour Go- vernour, or to be unjuff, and fo not tobeGod that he Ihould not fee death, and was indeed : Nay, if he believe not that hisMali.. not found, becaufe God had tranlla- nefs and Goodnefswill be pleafed with atad e ted him : for before his tranflation he bt' da"fly reward iotafucere Diligence. And he that believeth not a Life of great Reward had this tellimony, that he pleafed after this, cannot well belies that God is fuels, God. a Rewarder ofthem that diligently leek him; s. It was by trolling God for a better un- Geeing what they fuffer here. fern Life, that Enoch was made fit for and oh- Qt, But are thefe two Articles enough et rained to be tranflatedby God without dying, Sal-onion I which God judgedhim righteous. z. Thai the brief Hillery tnaketh it not ful- ly clear, wherein the difference of their Offe- rings lay, fave that, t. ,Abel's being of the Firftlings of Living Creatures, was in its nature more excellent than Cain's of Vegetables. n. Atad the nobler Effectfhew'd a nobler Cauce, or Faith. But feeing, r. that it's molt probable that theDuty of Sacrificing came from no Original but ,Adams Tradition of God's Command : 2. And that the ufe of it under M%a's Law expoundeth it after, we may conceive, it that it was ro liignifie, that Man was to believe that Death was deferv'd by Man's fin : a. That by 'Death the Mediator was to redeem him: t. And that as the Beaft was offer'd to God, they offer'd their ownLives to him, in hope ofthe Immortality of the Soul, and a better Life, which Death was the way to. And in this Faith sbel'excelled Cain. By faith Enoch was tranflated, Anf.

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