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in the ChrifMan Religion, which tram- 

 pleth upon pride, and fets on the neck of 

 ambition, numbly purfuing that infalli 

 ble perpetuity, unto which all others 

 muft diminifh their diameters, and be 

 poorly feen in Angles of contingency d 



Pious fpirits who pafled their dayes in 

 raptures of futurity, made little more of 

 this world, then the world that was be 

 fore it, while they lay obfcure in the 

 Chaos of pre-ordination, and night of 

 their fore-beings. And if any have been 

 fo happy as truly to underftand Chrifti- 

 an annihilation, extafe, exolution, iique- 

 fadion, transformation, the kifle of the 

 Spoufe.guftationofGod, and ingreffion 

 into the divine (hadow, they have alrea 

 dy had an handfome anticipation of hea 

 ven 5 the glory of the world is furelyo- 

 ver, and the earth in aflbes unto them. 



To fubfiftin lading Monuments, to 

 live in their productions, to exift in their 

 names, and predicament of chymeras, 

 was large fatisfaftion unto old expediti 

 ons, and made one part of their Efyzi- 

 WHS. But all this is nothing in the Meta- 

 phy ficks of true belief To live indeed 



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