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Augustine brings in Plotinus, acknowledging it the mercy of God to man, that his soul is in a mortal ¹body, that the body is not immortal, but that after a little time the bodies of men may be dissolved, and so their souls be there for ever where the soul of the world is; that is his expression.

1. 1De civ. Dei lib. 9. c. 10.

3. A third Argument that it shall be well with ¹you for eternity, is this, To know what seeds of eternity God hath begun to plant in your hearts. This is a certain truth, There is no soul that God intends eternal life unto, but God begins eternal life in this world. You know what St. John says, He that hates ⟨p. 342⟩his brother, hath not eternal life abiding in him. Eternal life is begun in this world in all that shall be saved; therefore think with your selves, What seeds of eternity have I put into my soul? All common graces, and moral virtues are not a seed that will grow up to eternal life, but saving grace will; though it be under the clods for the present, it will grow up eternity.

3. A third Argument that it shall be well with ¹you for eternity, is this, To know what seeds of eternity God hath begun to plant in your hearts. This is a certain truth, There is no soul that God intends eternal life unto, but God begins eternal life in this world. You know what St. John says, He that hates ⟨p. 342⟩his brother, hath not eternal life abiding in him. Eternal life is begun in this world in all that shall be saved; therefore think with your selves, What seeds of eternity have I put into my soul? All common graces, and moral vertues are not a seed that will grow up to eternal life, but saving grace will; though it be under the clods for the present, it will grow up eternity.