S£i, t 8 Triumph of Faith~ ig--1 and exalted high Prieft, now paj[ed into the hoty of Holies; and better it is that Chri{t aB: Grace again and again in Heaven, as we fin again amJ again on Earrh, than thatthe Acr of our h~h Prieft's lnterceffion had been all bur one AB: on the Crofs, and the Way to Heaven was made long, and faJls there muft be in the Way, to the End that I might lodge many Nights & Months by the Way, with my Gu· e Chrift, and\my Expences and Charges in rhe way might be free Grace. 5. Faith bath its Work in our gradual Morti.. fication, we believe that Chrift Jhall perfetl: what he hath 'begun, fo it was needful that Winter, and Months of Spring and Summer go before our Harveft and reaping ofthe Fruits of the Tr,e of Life. 6. Chrift's Works in the lower Kingdo~, as making the higher Kingdom the Copy and Samplar of his w~rking, now it's moft iuitab]e for Flower£ and Rofes, that muft be tranfplanted to grow up in the high Garden befide the 'tree of Life, and to bloffi)m out Glory for all Eternity, that they grow for a Time in the Land of Grace that they may take kindly with the Soil: So the lower and higher Gardens of Glory fJ.nd Gracedif.. fer not in Nature; what groweth in the one, can well grow in the other; they cannot fuit witlt the H'al'pinefs of that Land, exet·pt they have. experienced the Holinefs of continued Grace in this Land, and Chrill: maketh Storms of Sin to blow upon his young Heirs fi>r their Winter. God keeping Life at the Roor, that they may be fitter for an eternal green flourifhing Summer of Glory ; ~nd when Chrift confecrated hiq1fdf " thro' many Affiidions, that he might be an Heir iui-
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