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 leſs and to all Eternity. Here we have, even in our beſt State, but a glimpſe of the Glory that ſhall.be revealed; and how often have good Chriſtians deſpiſed and trampled on all Riches, Honour and Glory the World could give and embrace all the Miſeries, we ſuppoſe, can make a Man, the moſt miſerable of Creatures, to follow the Guidance of that marvellous Light that has been revealed, nothing but the Riches of Chriſt, held forth in his Meritorious Death and Paſſion, could ſatisfy or bound the large Deſire of their Souls. No Worlds below, tho' innumerable, adorned with all the gaudy Vanities and momentury Pleaſures, could balance the leaſt Thought of eternal Happineſs; and many Times raptures of Joy, in Holy and Pious contemplations, have raiſed them even to Heaven itſelf, in imagination, whilſt their Bodies have remained in the Earth, and made them with St. Paul to cry out, That they deſired to be diſſolved and to be with Chriſt. The holy Martyrs have clapped their Hands in the midſt of the Flames, whilſt their Finger ends have blazed with Fire like for many torches, light their Souls to the Manſion of eternal Bliss, prepared for them by their Redeemer, and ſung Triumph and Praiſe to the Lord Jeſus, who ſtrengthned and ſupported them in the midſt of their fiery Trial ; and ſome have confeſſed when the Flames have encompaſſed them, and part of their Bodies con-