~4 A -Defcription of the confirmed who are judicially obliged to put their – Seal thereunto ; and is tnow more called for in atJ Age, when no pa,rticular 'fruth feems ~ore ftrongly itnpugned, than the Reality ofexperin1erital Godlinefs is ; and become as a. public 'I'hean1 of D..erifion ; tho' Men muft either quit the whole Re– :velation of tlle Scripture; or.fee this to he as eflential to the Conftitution of aChri– ftian, as vital , Pri1iciples are to. a living, Man. , 1 3· Yea, 'tis !ure ~ herein, that-fuch as . take Religion to }.Ieart, muft needs look' to be p:ut to tlte greateft Trial of its Cer– tainty and· fhould 1nof1: nearly co11cern . t]1en1felyes, tq kno~ if they can ,abide, as 11rmly by their fpiritual Senfe, as by -that whieh is natural ; and tfo know as furely/in themfelves. the Operations an.d Motions of a Spiritual Life, ,· as that they have Beingby Nature ; and that here be , , ·no doubtful . or abftraB: Notiul).s, but ' ,which -have had deep Trial and Refle8:i-, on on them; .that they, who dare to ven– ·ture their eternal ·State on the known Certainty thereof, do Reafon their Souls t·o a ftedfait Adherence to the Truth, when they are ,call_ed to ·facrifice · their - Lives thereto; to wit, fro1n the rare.Ex- ,, periment,s .) .
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