144 ! ___ M_ofeshM,Selft-deniAU. spirit~M fau- then life it felfe, and all experiences R~ mm eft wbatfoever. Faith can fee into thole {&qticzu 11" l dubi4,~Utt things, thatnonatural eyeeverfaw,tt cpiniMiesin can apprd~. nd that which ncV'e:· entred corJibrM n~- in_to the heart ofman t o conceive. · Brit fcripfit, fed affcrtio- SJint Pout in the 1 Cor. 18. fay~s that . nesipfit vi- the things that are etcrnall, ;tYt things I ta,&. om11i t:, d r. h l k experiemia n6t 1 eene·; an y~t 1aycs, t at we oo eat 1 urtiores t·hings'that are nit fune; though they be I &ftrmiores· things that are not [cent, yet Saint Pout, I \. Luth. T. 3· and ot~tr beletvers, by the eye of faith / could fee them, as certairt and reall · f d~ings. The rhings ofChrift,ofgrac~,of r' i Heaven, what poore empty nnnoos f I l f • I . 1 ! were thty to thef~.mle _ ? what uncerra. iu 1 rhings btffJrr faith came in? burfoah i .. [ zpake5 them to be glorious thing .; ~ foith ~ . 1 d~fcovers fud1 reallcertainc. xce 'lende · in rht m~ and is fo furcit that it is , ot de- : ·cei ved, rhat it wil venture foule and bo-1 dy the IC?fie of all, thJt it will beare any j harc.fh!p, ~ea it will venture !he infi. nite I loffe of eternity upon them; foi.t.k dif~ov _e_ ·r._.~_!uc .. !! re._a!it·y· ~nld. cerra.i.nty i;, thefe 1 1 tbing.~,_ ~ h at npw ~!1t:~ thtngs of the World, tl}at "ye:r~ bef9re gr;ely reall, l~eiceJ~~·cj~sjq _the~.};.S9fa man,_ no1v j' . are as aOCl( s)and ihadowes)em pty. Fr! a- / gmary ...---:.....--- , ···--------------~ -~
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