7a Ptcfauo. Sdígj; as the chaff of the Summer- floor, rolling away with the wind of time. To a man up among the Stars, the whole Earth would be but as a fmall thing, and fuçh are Crowns and Scepters to one converting in Heaven ; in the midfl of them a man may want true greatnefs; the Worlds Epiphanes may be but a vile perfon, a flave to his lulls, which is the greatefi fer- vitude-; at death he may, like Adrian, moan over his little Soul and at Judgment cry out to the rocks and mountains to fall upon him,' and cover him from the prefince of the Lord. But to proceed, and take Sin in another drefs; let it come as a worldly Saviour, en- tertain' it, and you thall be delivered from lofies , reproaches , racks perfecuting flames, and cruel deaths ; it will not yet be eligible. Faith in the love of its efpoufals, and upon the firti contraa received a whole - Chrifi, Crofs and all, and fo virtually and in purpofe bath already (wallowed down all perfecutions which go along with the Go- fpel ; and when the a &ual trial comes, Faith will not efcape by. iniquity, which is an evil tranfcendently greater than all the ref(, and whileft it outwardly, temporally faves, inwardly, eternally deftroys : To Faith there is no lots like that of a Soul, no reproach like Sins turpitude ; no racks like thofe in Confcience; no flames or deaths like thofe in. Hell : Which made thofe tormented Worthies not accept deliverance Heb. II. 35. Sin is weer Sin, totally, perfealy evil ; but fuffering for
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