A discourse concerning the Redeemer's dominion over the invisible world, and the entrance thereinto

What Philosophers are wont to discourse of fortuitous Events in reference to Rational Agents, or Casual, in reference to Natural, must be understood but with relation to our selves, and signifies only our own ignorance of futurities; but can have no place in the all-comprehending Mind, as if any thing were a contingency unto that. For them that live as if ⟨p. 30⟩they thought they came into this World by chance; 'tis very natural to them to think they shall die, and go out of it, by chance too, but, when, and as, it happens. This is worse than Paganish Blindness; for besides what from their Poets, the vulgar have been made to believe concerning the three fatal Sisters, to whom they ascribed no less than Deity concerned in measuring every ones Life. The grave discourses which some of them have writ concerning Providence, and its extent to the lesser intermediate concerns of Life, much more to that their final great concern of Death, will be a standing Testimony against the too-prevailing Christian Scepticism (they ought to excuse the Solecism, who make it) of this wretched Age! But such among us as will allow themselves the ⟨p. 31⟩liberty to think, want not opportunity, and means by which they may be assured, that not an imaginary, but real Deity is immediately and constantly concerned in measuring our Time in this World. What an awful thought is this! And it leads to a

What Philosophers are wont to discourse of fortuitous Events in reference to Rational Agents, or Casual, in reference to Natural, must be understood but with relation to our selves, and signifies only our own ignorance of futurities; but can have no place in the all-comprehending Mind, as if any thing were a contingency unto that. For them that live as if ⟨p. 30⟩they thought they came into this World by chance; 'tis very natural to them to think they shall die, and go out of it, by chance too, but, when, and as, it happens. This is worse than Paganish Blindness; for besides what from their Poets, the vulgar have been made to believe concerning the three fatal Sisters, to whom they ascribed no less than Deity concern'd in measuring every ones Life. The grave discourses which some of them have writ concerning Providence, and its extent to the lesser intermediate concerns of Life, much more to that their final great concern of Death, will be a standing Testimony against the too-prevailing Christian Scepticism (they ought to excuse the Soloecism, who make it) of this wretched Age! But such among us as will allow themselves the