J cciouo fad* film in a way of Repenting and Believing, or how the Sheaves of Joy and Comfort have followed his Tears, or how SatisfaEions Manna -like have drqpped down on his hun- gry Soul , or how Divine illuminations have come in and Crowned his Holy rear, or how Talents have multiplied in the faithful ufing and ac`uating of them: And the Experiment thereupon will be compleat , every Grace fooner or later being in force good meafure anfwered by the Promifes, which let out their fweetnefs to it as God bath ordained them to do. Thus the Believer fenfibly enters the Land of Promife, and eats tithe Fruit there- of, lifting up his Soul in The high Praifes of him, who gave the Prornifis in the Scripture and fulfils them in the Heart. As touching Promifes of eternal good things in Heaven, where there are Plenitudes of Joy and Rivers of Pleafure in the Prefence of Him who is All in All, the completion of thefe is in another World ; neverthelefs the Believer hash an experimental tafle thereof here.Whileft his Hope hangs upon them, he finds ftrength and comfort come into his Heart ; whilfl the weary World is toiling with troubles , O what a refrefhing is it to look into Eternity ! Hope, Entring within the vail, is an Anchor to the Soul; and fo flablifl,es it, that it doth not rowl about with the wheelings of this change- able World, nor center its happinefs in any or all the Creatures. Let the World come in all its Fancies and glittering appearances of Good , 349
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