pinion gait ». 343 like to all ; the Sun of Profperity chines on the Bramble as well as on the Flower ; the tem- pelt of Adverfity falls on the Garden as well as on the Wildernefs. Love or Hatred cannot be known by thefe things, not by them as they are in the.mfelves,or meerly iffuing out of Pro- vidence : But the Believer hath them by a fin - gular Priviledg, and in a way of Promife, and by refle6tion may know that he hath them fo: When he doth not arrogate ought to himfelf, or like churlith Nabal, all in his Poffefhves fay, My bread, my seater, and my f{efh; but really confefs God to be fupream Lord of all, and himfelf but an accountable Steward of thco When he can call his goods on the waters,and as it were fend them to Sea in a voyage. of Charity, expe6ting no return but in the other World, where thefe Corruptibles fo ufed will rife in the incorruption of eternal glory ; When he can charge all outward things to Rand with- out in their own Ration, and not approach that heart which is a facred Temple or holy place for God to dwell in, When he looks on all the World as forfeited by Sin, and new founded by Chrift the Mediator, and fo tafis his precious blood in every good thing, and gathers all his comforts from his reconciling Crofs; When upon a juft call to Suffering he is willing to venture all his part in this life upon the meer Promife of a better, and had rather call all his Mundane pearls over board than hazard a wrack of Faith or Confcience; When the pureft fweeteftComforts here below do not Z 4 fatis-
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