To the Poor in Spirit. Unbelievers world have Happinefs : but how fain would they have it in the Creature, rather then inGod ! Believers would rather have their Happinefs in God then in the Creature : But how fain would they have it without Dying . And wonder : for when Sin brought in Death, even Grace it felfcannot Love it, though mayfn mit to it : But though Chaarlifh he Sou do ls d our way, why look we not at admit- tance into R&fl ! and the Bodies R e furreaio5 that mull Portly follow ? Doubtlefs that Faith by whichwe are 9uflifled and Saved, as it fits down on the word of Truth as the prefent ground of its confident repofe, fo loth it thence look with one eye backward on the Crofs , andwith the otherforward on the Crown : And if we well ob- ferve the Scripture Defcriptions of that Faith, we ¡hall fiad them as frequently magnifying it, and defcribing it from the latter, as from the former. As it is the duty and glory of faith to look back with Thankful Acknowledement to s Crucified chrift, and his payment ofour Ran" fom : fo is it the Duty and Glory of that fame lu f?ifying Saving Faith to Look forward with De fire and Hope to the Return of King efus, and the Glorious Celebration of the Marriage of the Lamb , and the Sentencial l uflifacation and the Glorification ofhis Saints : To Believe theft B3
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