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temporal enjoyments are present and easilyobtainable ; the other at a g^eat distance,future, and besides, very hard to come by ;and I love my eaie, Vt eft ingenium bominurna laboreproclive ad hbidinem. Should I denymy le It Good in this Life, and then perchancecease to be, and so have no Reward for mypains ; nay, on the contrary expose my (elfto the hazard of many asllidtions and luster-ings, which are the portion of the Godly inthis Life, how unnnecestariiy shall I makemy self miserable ? Miserable I say, becauseby the Apostle’s own confession Christians, Ifin this life only they had hope , would le of allmen the most miser ah le, r Cor. iy. jp HadI not better make sure of what is before me ?Why have I these Appetites within me, andsuch Objects about me, the one being lo suita-ble to the other, is it not more natural andreasonable to fulfil, than deny them? Surelyit cannot be Wisdom to lole a certain Good,for an uncertain Hope ; and for an unground-ed fear of Hell hereafter, to undergo a Purga-tory here.

To this Argumentation upon the falseFoundation of the uncertainty of a FutureEstate of endless Happiness or Misery, accor-dingly as we have behaved our selves in thisLife, I answer, °

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