~2 A -Defcription of the co11jirmed to his-Mind; and have ~o,-Iefs a clear and , judicious TrnH of this great Myftery of experimental Religion., for Confirmation of his Faith, than to tre fenfibly affected with .the felt Po\ver thereof. And, in the fir~ Place, why this is necefiarily requi– fite ~nd -· ca11ed for, with refpect to the confinned State of a Chriftian, tnay be · thus corifidered, Oll fon1e few Grounds .. · I. Thatthe Things of- Religion, which# muft be experienced within rfime, ~ are' , fuch fublime and wonderful Myfteries, as may be juft Matter of Aftoniihment, and ,make Men a Wender to thetnfelves, to think tha-t thefe prefent Pledges of fo: great a Hope whieh is to come,"are no Shadows, l)O Ai.,pearantes of Things, but moft fure and undoubted Realities; and that fuch ·tnere are ~his Day in the Earth, who know fo near· a Converfe with an, ~nvifible ·God, aud the fliperna– tural T·ruths of his Word, with the fenfi- ~ 'ble Feeling of the inefti1nable ~Love .of Chrift, by this Demonftration of E~peri- ; ,. ence; yea, who in fuch difn1al Titnes do , affuredly kno~, wh-~t the Joy of~is P:e– fence;and --an lmmediate·Fellowfhipw1th · their bleffed Head is, upon the greateft Cert'tint1r of -rrrial ; fince thefe are fo 'V '"· . ./high, . r , /
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