A choice Bed of Spices. 201 that he would not change his condition with the vain, carnal, formal and prophane men of the world, for ten thoufand worlds ; that man i3 certainly for heaven, and heaven is cer- tainly for that man : we may be very highly and groundedly confident, that God will never call that man to hell among devils and damned fpirits at the great day , who in his day of life would not chafe to be in the condition of the men of the world, for as many worlds as there be men in the world. Look, as none meet in heaven, but fuch as are like to like in their renewed natures, principles and praaifes fo none meet in hell but fuch as are like to like in their old natures, Dcut 2230. principles and praolifes. That God that would not fatter an sc.r.6,z4,1;, Ox to be yoked with an Afs in this world ; nor a Believer 172 I°. with an Infidel; will never fuffer fuch to be yoked with devils, and damned reprobates in that lower world, who would not to gain many worlds be willingly yoked with wicked men in this world ; certainly they fhall never be a Chriffians companions in that other world, Whole fociety and company, and whofe wickednefs and bafenefs have been a grief, a tor- ment, a hell to him in this world, Pfal. 119. 53, 136, Tr. 9. t, 2. Ez4k. 9. 4, 6, 2 Pet. 2. 7, 8. When Mrs. Kathe- rine grettergh was upon her dying bed, and moll grievoufly affaulted by temptations ; in the midi' of her fore conflicts, this was no fmall fupport and comfort to her, Thar farely God would not fend her to hell to live for ever among filch wicked pzrfon7, whofe company and whofe fin was a burden to her in this world, & c. But, Sixteenthly, That foul that dares not fay that he does not (in, (For in many things ne (fend all ; and dere is not a j!?,it Pn,In upon the earth that doeth grog and finneth nor ; and gboc zn fay, I. have made my heart c'ean, I ampere from my fin? And if ive fay ure have no fin, xe,dece;ve our felvs and :be truth is not in us) yet can fay in uprightnefs before the Lord, that he would not willingly, refolutely, malicioufly, wilfully, wickedly and hab tually fin againft the Lord to gain a world,; that foul that don't nor won't through grace affilling, allow himfelf or in- dulge himfelf in a courfe of fin, or in a trade of fin, or in I john Prat X r* 771 3. y. D d the r6. James 3. Z. Ecclef, r 20. Prov. 20.7. jth. 1. 1, S.
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