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RELIGJO,N.
furance
·of
their
being
on
·_fafe
Grounds
herein
thar{ moft
feem
to reckon.
·.
rv.
BEcAusE
the
Revelation of
the
Gof
pel, an
cl
of an
etern~.l
State
in ano·
· ther
World,
is
fo
great
and
wondet;"ful,
· as 'tis
ftrange how this
is,
not
the high
eft
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.ihortl
y
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'fru
t·h, when
Atheifin
feetns
to be at its 1aft
Atte1nHt
in .the
vr
orld, and we are fallen in
fo
a-
111azing
an Hopr of the Power of Dark·
,nefs,1
as makes
thefe
latter
Ti1ne~
'tno(e
'
·
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remark.·
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