350 Petiouß fait). Good, it cannot call off the Believers Heart from Heaven, but it will be ready to point that way; or let it come with forms of ter - ror and troubles,it cannot loofen the Anchor- hold the Believ4r will rather part with all the World, and 1115, Life too, then let go his hold of Heaven :We took with joy the fpoiling of your goods, knózwing in your felves, that ye have in Heaven a better, and an enduring fub- flance, faith the Apoftle, Hebr. i o. 34. Or, as the Words are in the Original ; Knowing that ye have in your felves a better and abiding fub- flance in Heaven. He fpeaks as if they had car - ried Heaven in and about them, and in part they did fo ; for as Beza hath it on this place, Fide pofdemus quod eft in Cælis, By Faith we pofß that which is in Heaven. All our Graces are izópaves 6ccvnfías, Heb. 6. 9. Things having or containing Salvation; No parts or pieces of this World , but fuch as Heaven dawns and begins here below. The holy Spirit is as the Firft Fruits to allure us of the whole Crop in Heaven, and as the earnefl of the total Sum of Glory which {hall be paid above. The Be- liever here hath fo much of Heaven as to make him flrive, wreftle, run, work, watch and wait with his Loyns girt and Lamps burning ; and as the twelve Tribes to ferve God inJlantly, Alts 26.7. fP tiwlirsio; running with full fpeed, and firetching out himfelf in the Race, that he may come to the Crown of Life ; and furely, his Hope, if fanned a- bout a, nullity , would not put forth fuch firong
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