xii The A:uthor's · Preface. - be _put. to Trial, than fince .the ChurI ' ' ches Rife and Recover:_y from Anticliri– ·fiian Bondage. The Storrn now.'1J~fibly . grows upon the Churche.r ·of Chr.ifl, tha' nothing ought to .fai~t or jhake the .. Spirits ofar~y, who kno.~ th.eir Anchor is fore and caji within the Vail; but the flrongefl Difficulties, in following the · Lord, when overcpme,yield the greatefl .-– Villory, and will be .not on~y .Ma~ter ~f Joy here,_ ~ut to all Eterni~y'· in having with Pa_ttence and I-fope endured, and got well througl? a Throng of Te'J!tpta– tions and Affaulu, in a .refolute Adhe– rence to the :cy-ruth. . lf Men lhink it their Wifdorn ·to fecure their private In– ter eft, 'by dividing it in ~(uch -a Tinze from the p_ublic ·Caufe 'of the Reformed Church, and nzake L ·ight of the great– eft Truths Of God now af!au.lted, of~the Blood of the ·Mar~y'rs, .-'2ea, . of their own eternal State; by any Cooln~(s or jhrinking fr01n the fame j they rr.vill find no .temporal Motives can ever compen– fate th(lt Lofs 'and Ruin which ine~vita- ,' ' - -- . . - ' bb
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