'i9,_ - TM 1'rial and S:n:. 11 f L ccible for Glory, he being brought thro' Fire and V\ ater, hot and cold, and many changes to Heavr-n, and f<> came to eternal Happinefs thro» many Years continued Holinds \; it was not fit that Chrifi, who was to make Heirs like his Rule Qnd Samplar, fhould bring them to Glory with 1 a. Leap and a Step, from a jujlified Condition, to a glorifed Efiate, without an interveening Progrefs in Sanai6cation and lJolinefs ; Chrijt Utlderftandeth well the fundamental Laws of the bit;her City, the new .7eru[atem ; t~e Frame of the Government of that KinQdonh ts, that none be received as free Citizens ofGlory, but fuch as haveferved Apprentices,, Minors, little Chi~dr~n, under Tutors to Grace and the Way ofHolmds; he is /of too fhort ftanding, who cometh hot and fmoaking cut from his Lufis, a jufti6ed Sinner, to ftep immediately into Glory, and fo here is a Strangerwelcomed to Heaven from Hell; a Chitd of Satan, playing at the 'IJevits Fire-fide Yefierdqy, or the laftHour.now this Day,thisfame very Hour, muft be inrolled amongft thofe who walketh with the Lamb, in white: Some Soldiers, I grant, are advanced to be high Commanders, per jattum, by a Leap ; but 'tis for fome Piece of rare Service tO the Prince and State: and 'tis like, the repenting Thief, in few Hours fpace, had been in three feveral Kingdoms, in the State of N ature, the Kin?dom of Darkneis, and the Kingdom of Grace, and that Day with Chrift in Pa- ' radife. But this is (I c0nceive) rare; and give J)le leave to fay, Prince~ at their Coronation do f<:me extraordinary A as of Grace, by Priviledge of the new Crocu.-w, that they may handfel the new .. Thr.one with Atts of Me1·~.;y; Cbrift was now
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