A Body of Practical Divinity

Use 1. SEE the Excellency of Grace, it perseveres: Other things are but [Greek or Hebrew], for a Season; Health and Riches are sweet, but they are but for a Season, but Grace is a Blossom of Eternity. The Seed of God remains, 1 John 3.9. Grace may suffer an Eclipse, not a Dissolution. It is called Substance for its Solidity, Prov. 8.21. and durable Riches for its Permanency, Prov. 8.18. It lasts as long as the Soul, as Heaven lasts. Grace is not like a Lease which soon expires, but it runs parallel with Eternity.

Use 1. SEE the Excellency of Grace, it perseveres: Other things are but 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, for a Season; Health and Riches are sweet, but they are but for a Season, but Grace is a Blossom of Eternity. The Seed of God remains, 1 Iohn 3.9. Grace may suffer an Eclipse, not a Dissolution. It is called Substance for its Solidity, Prov. 8.21. and durable Riches for its Permanency, Prov. 8.18. It lasts as long as the Soul, as Heaven lasts. Grace is not like a Lease which soon expires, but it runs parallel with Eternity.

2. See here that which may provoke in the Saints everlasting Love and Gratitude to God. What can make us love God more than the fixedness of his love to us? he is not only the Author of Grace, but finisher; his love is perpetuated and carried on to our Salvation, John 10.27. My Sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. And I give unto them eternal Life. My Sheep, there is Election; hear my voice, there is Vocation; and I know them, there is Justification; and I give unto them eternal Life, there is glorification. How may this make us love God, and set up the Monuments and Trophies of his Praise? How much have we done, to cause God to withdraw his Spirit, and suffer us to fall Finally? yet that he should keep us, let his name be Blessed, and his Memorials eternized, who keepeth the Feet of his Saints,