2 71 The Trial and SER. ~2 t' not yet animated, ~s neither S~ed ?nly, nor a Man-child only ; fo ts a Convert m hts firft framtng, neither perfecHy untamed_Corruption, becaufe there's a Crack and a Throw m the lr0n-fi.new of the Neck ; nor is he a' thorow Ghild of Light, but as we fay, in the Dead-throw, in the CJ1Jac1 ofbreaking .fort~ of Chitdren, a~ H~(ea fpeaketh: A Child wtth hts Head come forth of the Womb, and' no more, andfo half born only; fo is the Convert while he is in the making, not taken off Chri{t's Wheels .; halfin the Borders of Hell, and looking ·a£1.r off at ' the Suburbs of Heayen, not far from the Kingdom of Heaven. But, 2. Thi6 Bridge over the Water between the Kingdom of 'IJarknefs, and the State of la\'1ng Grace, hath no necdfary Connexion with that Kingdom of the Son of God's Love, but fuch as it b ath from the foie and meer Decree of the free Eleaion of Grace; an~ therefore, many Reprobates may enter the Brtdge, and never go along t o the other Bank ofthe River: God breaketh the Bridge, this being the very Divifion and parting of thefe two unfearchable Ways of EleB:io11 and Reprobation, yet fo as the fin in .cutting the Bridr.:e is the Guilt of the reprobate Man : A3 ma~y Births die in the breaking forth out of the Womb d ivers Rofes in the Bud a re blafted, and never ft·~ Harveft, through the Faul t of the Seed, not of t he Sun. 3· 'Tis true, the new Creation and Life of God, is virtually, Seminatite1· in thefe Preparat ions, as the Seed is a ':free in Hop~;, the Bloffom an Apple, the FoundatiOn a Pa lace in its bef!inning ; fo ha.lf a Deftre in the Non-convertecf is LoYe-fick nefs for Chrift in the Seed, legal Humi- . li-
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