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CHAP. IV. Of the ETERNITY of this LIFE.
FRom this larger (then was at first designed) consideration of the na∣ture of this LIFE, pass we now to a short Meditation of the ETERNITY of it; which indeed is the Crown that God sets upon its head, the Circle, if I may so speak, which wreathing it self about this Happiness, makes it to be our sovereign Good. And it may not be un∣worthy our observation, that this Eter∣nity of Life is as far above the continu∣ance of all other blessings heretofore pro∣mised, as the Life it self is. LIFE a∣mong the Jews, according to the letter of their Law, signifying onely all earthly good things, there was onely a long life, not an eternall, in the land of Canaan, promised to them that kept that Law. But quite otherwise, the LIFE pro∣mised by Christ consisting onely in the enjoyment of spirituall and heavenly