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 conſumed, ther they have felt no more Pain than in a Bed of Dawn, and that the Coals of fire and devouring flames have appeared like a pleaſant Garden of Rules and Lillies round them.

O that Men would be wiſe and conſider theſe Things, that they would with St. Paul die daily to ſin, and the corruption of the fleſh, to live to Chriſt righteouſneſs and purity of Spirit, that they may juſtly lay claim to his Merit, to the Riches and Treaſure of his Mercy; for to doubt the Conſideration of the ſtupendous Redemption that he his wrought for the Sons and Daughters of Men, occaſioned what St. John ſaw in the Rev. iv. 9, 10, 11. viz. And when the Beaſt (whoſe character you will find a large in that Chapter) give Glory and Honour, and thanks to him that far on the Throne, who liveth forever and everː The four and twenty Elders fall down before him that ſat on the Throne, and worſhip him that liveth for ever nd ever; and caſt their Crowns befor the Throne, ſaying, Thou art worthy, O Lord, receive glory and honour, and powerː for Thou haſt created all things, and for thy Pleaſure they are and were created.

we have a proſpect, tho' in a viſion of the holy Men, whole Souls were redeemed from the Earth, and are triumphing and ſing