66 A = ox of precious Ointment : Or, Y. Pirfl, That you have deferved Hell, and therefore for you to have but a'probahility of going to Heaven, is infinite grace and mercy ; you have deferved to be that up in chains Jude 6. 1 of darknefs with 'Devils and damned Spirits to all eternity, ! and therefore for you to have a probability of 'enjoyinc, for b, H61.11 z. /2,2,35 i , 24. ever the prefence of God, Chrill, the glorioas Angels, and . 113.33. 14. PIA a6. z.1 . the Spirits of jut+ men made perfeot in Heaven, is a mercy more worth than ten thoafand worlds ; you have deferved to Idwell with a devouring fire, and to lye for ever under thole flames and torments that areeaflefs, endlefs, and remedi- fs ; and therefore for you to have a probability of fatiating and delighting your fouls in that fulnefs of joy, and in thole I everlafling pleafures that be at Gods right hand, is Grace,, yea glorious Grace upon the Throne, &c. B Secondly, Confider that if you call up a true and faithful account, you will certainly. find, that the comfort, the peace, the joy, the quiet, the ref+, the fatisfaaion, the content that the generality of Saints do enjoy, is more from probabil -ties of Grace, than tis from any certainty or affurance, that they have of Grace being in their Souls ; tis more from pro- babilities of an interea in Chrifl, than from any affurance of an interell in Chrifl ; tis more from probabilities of being laved, than tis from any fpecial perfvvafions that they Pnal be faved ; tis more from probabilities of going to Heaven, than tis from any railed fixed confidence that they {hall go to Heaven ; and therefore the people of God have very great caufe to bow before the Lord, and to adore his Grace, and for ever to fpeak *ell of his name, for the very:. obabili- fi ics of Grace, and of an interell in Chrifl, and -cif b6ing laved andllorified. Thirdly, Confider that there have been very 'many under fuch dreadful horrors and terrors of Confcience, and under fuch wrath and difpleafure of an =angry God,. and that have lain trembling upon their dying beds, and that have been even ready to be fwallowed up in the gulf of defpair, who would have given all the world (had it been in their power) for
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