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our Refurrection from the Dead. 'Tis a bundantly fufficient for our Encouragement to contend earnestly all our Life long, for the Blifs and Happiness of the ones and to warn us from falling wilfully into the Mifery and Torments of the other; that both are affured to us by the Teftimony of God himself, and of our Lord Jefus Chrift his Son, to be infinite in their respective Natures, and everlasting in their Kinds: And this is what the divine Goodness has graciously vouchfafed to reveal to us, and is the utmost indeed that our prefent Condition can be capable of.

I'll conclude all therefore with the Apostle's Ufe and Application to his Chriftian Brethren, of this very Subject we are now upon; Seeing all these things (fays he) 2 Pet. iii. fhall be diffolved, fpeaking of the vifible 11, 1. World about us, What manner What manner of Perfons ought you to be in all holy Converfation and Godliness? Looking for, and baftening unto the coming of the Day of God. And again, with a repeated Zeal and Earneftnefs in fo important a Matter; Seeing ye do look for . 4: fuch things, faid he, be diligent, that ye may be found of him in Peace, without Spot and blameless. And this fets forth the full of my Intention in every foregoing Page of this friendly Letter to you; which has prov'd too tedious, I fear, in the Variety of Matter contain'd in it. Yet everyLine,

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I'm fure, with fincere Regard to your fpiritual and eternal Welfare, ever to be prayed for, as it always has been, by your near Relation in the Church of Chrift;

7. S.

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