Spiritual Peaceand Comfort. 17; Saved. Do I need to go over the other particu- lars ? I know you fee my meaning in them all : Specially 'that which I aim at is this : that as Fard had a promife of the life of all that were with him in the íhip, and yet when fome would have gone out,he told them Except there abide in the fhip ye cannotbefaved, Ads 27.31. (fo that he makes their apprehenfion or danger in a Poffibility of being drowned, to be the means of detaining them in theChip till they came all fafe to land) fo Jefüs Chriff, who will infallibly fave all his Elect (they being givenhim by his father to be infallibly faved) will do it by caufing them to bold faft by him, through all the troubles, and labours, and temptati- ons of this tumultuous, tempeftuous world, and that till they came to land ; and the apprehenfi- on oftheir danger (hall be his means to make them hold faft ; Yet is not their fafety principally in themfelves but in him Nor is it, their holding fáfl by him that is the chief carafe of their diffe- rence from thofe that perifh , but that is his love and refolution to fave them. And therefore when they do let go their hold, he will not fo lofe them ; but will fetch them up again ; Only he will not bring them through this fea of danger , as you would draw a block through the water ; but as roen that muff hold fall , and be commanded and threatned to that end; and therefore when they lofe their hold, it is the fear of drowning, which they felt themfelves near, which Mall caufe them to hold faller the next time : and this mull needs be the fear ofa pofsible danger. And for thofe that perien, they have none to blame but them- felves.
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