Part Il._ A. 7 m~tn andwhicb u hi.! Beft and Wijeft courfe? One pPLrt (and the grea;er) 1:hink in their hearts tha~ prefent profperity is brft, be– 'caufe they think that the promifed happinefs of the ·life to come is a thing uncertain ; or if there be fuch a thing, they may have it 4ter the pleafurcs of fin ; Thefe arc: the itJft- ~~ . ' .Another part paveafuperficial dead OpiniofJ that Heaven and Holinefs are Befo .: but the Love of the fle!h and the world Jyeth deeper at their hearts, and beareth the greater fway in their Jives : and thefe are the Hypocrites ; that is, Chrifti~tns in Opi– nion and Profeffion, and fo ·much of their PraClice as will fiand with theirflefhly intere If, but Infidels in their Pr11Cfical eftimation, · and at the Heart, and in the referves and fecret bent of their lives. Another part, ·being i1luminated and fancbfied from above, Relieve the Certainty and Excellency of Glory, and fee the vt~· nityand 'l.it).:lltion of this life, and tllfte the[Weetne{s of the Love iJf God, and perceive the Necejfity and fweetnefs of that Holi– nefs, which others fo abhor, and hereupongi'lleup them/elves f(J God, and Jet tbemfelves to feek.. for the Jmm~rt~tl treafure, and make itthe princip11l care of their hellrts and lmjinefs of their lives to efcape damnation, and live with Chrifi in endlefs Glory. All the world confifieth of thefe three forts of men, lnfidel.r,' Hypocrites, and true.Believers. Now the Quefl:ion is, Which of thefe three 11re in the right? Both the other do condemn the H]p8crite that halteth between two opinions ; and One thinks that 1Jaal uGod, that the World u Beft, and therefore he gives up him– felf to it: and the other thinks, that The Lord u God, and Hta... ven is be ft, and therefore he gives up himfelf ro it. And if it would do any thing with thofe that doubt, towards the turning of the fcales, to tell you which fide Chrifi is on, its told you here i.n my Text, as plait:~ as the tongue of man can fpeak [One thing u NeedftJl : Mary ht~th chofm that Good part, which jhall not be tak_en II.Way from her~ THe. Dod:rine which I a~ n?~ to handle to you from the plam words of~he}"ext, 1s th1s. Pz
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