SER• 2 t rrhe Trial and 2S8 to chufe Heaven and Life, Hell or Death as it pleafeth, as be1ng free and loofed from all Predetermination, and fore-going Motion, ACling or bowing of the Will, coming either from God's natural or his efficacious o~ fupernatural Provi.. dence: And fo the Papift and Arminian on the one Extremity, inthronet11 Nature, and exto!leth proud Merit, and abaferh Chrijt and free Grace. The Familift, Libertine and .Antinomian, on a contrary Extremity and Oppofition, turn Man into a Block, and make him a meer Patient in the Way to Heaven; and under pretence of exalting Chrifl and free Grace, fet up the Flefh, Liberty, Licence, Loofnefs on the Throne, and make the Way to Heaven on the other Extremity a~ broad, as to comply with all prefumptuou~ proud fldhly Men, walking after their Lufts, and yet (as they aream) believing in Chrifi. z. The Soul feerh Chrift in a1l his Beauty, Excellency, Treafures of free Grace lapped up with the Curtain ofmany precious Promiies: Now, the natural Man knowincr the literal Meaning and Sem1e of tbe Promif- ,, es~feeth in thet? but v\rords of Gold, and things nfur off; ancl m truth, taketn Heaven to be a beautiful and golden Fancy; and the Gofpel-promifes, a fhower of precious Rubie~, Scrpbires, :Diamonds, fallen out of the Clouds only in a night Dream ; and therefore jeers and fcQffs at the Day of Judgment, and at Heaven and Hell, 2 Pet. iii. 1, 2, ,.'--For can every Capacity imell and taft~ the tmfeat'chahle Riches of Cbrifl:, the Fulnefs of God jn the Womb of the Promifes, hy meditating on them, ~nd fendjn!! them, in their f\vet>tnefs and heavenly Excdi~~cy,, down to the AffeEtions to. embrace tht>m ? 1\o, it cannot be, that \Yorch and Sounds
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