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in the world : then in obedience to this great 

 example, let us cruciate our selves, the better to 

 enable us to triumph over death : for to conquer 

 self, forceth the devil to recoil ; and to render 

 the vanities of this world contemptible, is to 

 lead hell and captivity captive ; which none but 

 Christ can do, and has done : yet ought we to 

 imitate our Leader, as true volunteers of the 

 Cross, if we hope to imbrace the royal sanctions 

 of him that bore his cross in a bloody shower, 

 for the redemption of mankind. This I recom- 

 mend to the Christian reader that follows the 

 Lamb the Captain of our salvation. 



Theoph. By this most excellent description of 

 man, he labours, I perceive, under great anxie- 

 ty, till Christ affix him by his sovereign ray of 

 light, whereby to illuminate and sublime his 

 immortal soul into the everlasting arms of him- 

 self, the glorious Being of his all-glorious Fa- 

 ther, where time shall be no more : for time is 

 but the child of eternity, as is generation the 

 child of time. Generation, therefore, devolves 

 in time, and time results in the arms of eternity. 

 But eternity is the beam of the majesty of God, 

 whose divine centre is love essential ; and love 

 is an attribute so divinely connected to the infi- 

 nite wisdom and goodness of him that never 

 had beginning, by whom all things were begot 

 in time, whereby he made his invisibility visible, 



