I o . .A 1Je[criptio11. of the cottjir1ned ' . , _ that honourable .{\ccotmt which the great ~ Judge will then make of thefe Trials of his . ~Faith, and iharp ConfliCts which he l1ad gone through withiri · Time ; with that foletnn Teftin1ony of Ap11robation, ~~hich w~l be given hereof! And, fince us fure!l thefe great. Things muft be a Part of the Chr'ifiian Faith"; can it .be :flrange, that fuch) as wo1.1ld iu that Man– ner converfe therewith, (tho' they be pot - 'yet feen) as no lefs Ut'ldoubted Realities · ' than any prefent ObjeCts ofSenfe, cannot I he eafily fatisfi~d \vith a low Degree of Evidence 411d Confirtnation of their Judgtll,ent ; but would have their· J~y IJerfeB:ed io far as this , State of Mor-tahty .can bear ; and 1o find' it eafy to rejoice . and glory in Tribulation, and~eep ' now for -~a .Seafon, ,w l}.o are to rejoice fpr ever;-yea, to !ay in the Words· of Me– P.hibofoeth , Le( them take it~ll, a~d ~n-- A _ JOJ" the fa1ne , fince he, who 1s the1r Li fe , and exceedipg Joy., lives and reigns, who ..]s ·iJ;fi nite1y better to then1 than all thefe · T hings. · c • 6~ He accounts the fl:rengthning of ·his Faith, to be fuch a Concern, not only as jt is his Soul's Adventure for all Eternity~ ~ but-as the higheft Way 'of glorifying .God · " · here : 'I . I J ..
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