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And for a Conclusion of this first Point, that which follows in that place lately ci∣ted out of 1 Pet. 1. 9. Receiving the end of your faith, the salvation of your souls, may as fitly serve for the confirmation of all these latter fore-going Notions, as to any other sense Interpreters have affixed.
I am aware how these words, Receiving the end of your faith, the salvation of your souls, are interpreted of that joy unspeaka∣ble, and full of glory, which the Verse afore had spoken, that many Saints through be∣lieving do in this life enjoy, as being sal∣vation imperfect, and the earnest of it in the same kind, and so a part of the Re∣ward of Faith received in hand (as we say) or aforehand, and vouchsafed over and above the ordinary way of living by Faith. This interpretation I no way gain∣say, nor will go about to exclude: for I know it doth consist with that other I am