I / cf RELIGJO,N. furance ·of their being on ·_fafe Grounds herein thar{ moft feem to reckon. ·. rv. BEcAusE the Revelation of the Gofpel, ancl of an etern~.l State in ano· · ther World, is fo great and wondet;"ful, · as 'tis ftrange how this is,not the higheft Intereft of Mens Life, to have thei~ Faith n1ore deeply confirtned on the fur– theft Trial of their Security now, by · the Way herein; who muft.ihortly rnake fo .great a Trial thereof at Death ; (for, if we were but once come thus far, as to ·afk our ow!1 .Soul, what .the Chrifliatz. Faith, indeed is, that \Ve are tl1us called to believe, it could not poif1bly>but be– get fon~e Extafy ·of wondering at the Greatneis .thereof 1 and to reclcon any ' Light and itnplicit Aflet1t to the fame, as a Degree both of .Athetfm and Indiffe– rency in this Matter. V. THouGH there be no Conflict wit~ Heathens, as in the firfl:, Titnes, yet .was fuch a Spirit hever at a higher Pitch ,than .it i 1 s no\v, to take off all lfinn Afi~nt to the greatefi: Princii-,les of'frut·h, when Atheifin feetns to be at its 1aft Atte1nHt in .the vr orld, and we are fallen in fo a111azing an Hopr of the Power of Dark· ,nefs,1as makes thefe latter Ti1ne~ 'tno(e ' · \ . B .· remark.· . . . • \. '' 1. /
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