.r.z u ilo-quy .jn flattering tne, that myconditionw~good. Ifee, I fee, I am but a loft and undone man, for ever un.. do;:;e, unlefs the Lord help me out of this condition. ,~1r iins! my fins! Lord, \vhatanunclean, polluted wretch am I! More lnathfome and odious to thee, than ·the mofl: hateful venom, or noifome carcaf1.1 :can be to n1e. Oh't \V hat a hell of fin is in this heart .of n1ine, which I have flattered my felf to be agood heart! Lord, how univerfally an1 I corrupted, in .all my parts, -powers, perforRl~nces !. All the ima– ginaricns of the thoughts of tny heart are only evjl -continBally. I am under an inability to, averfenefs frctn, ~d enmity againfi any thing that is good; & am prone to all that is evil.My heart is a very fink ()fall fin: And oh the innumerable hofis and fwarms ---of finful thought~, \\:ords, and aCtions, that have flown frcn1 thence! Oh the kad of guilt that is on l'ny foul! lvfy bead h fuU) my heart fuU, my mind, an4 mJ members, tbq are all full of fin. 0 my fins I How ~do they fiare upon rr.e !,Howdo they witnefsagainft me! \Voe is me, n1y creditors are upon me, every Comrr;andment taketh ho~d upon l)."le, for n1ore . than ten thoufand talent~, Jea, ten thoufand times :ten thoufand. How er:dlefs then is de iummof all my debts! If this who!e ~odd were filled up from ·earth to heaven with paper, and all this raper writ.. tenover, within a,nd \\>ithout, by Arithn1eticiar.s; }et when all were caft up together, it wou~d come un<:onceivably fl1ort of what I owe to the ~.eaft of (~od's Comn;.anJn1·ents. \Voe unto me; for my (ebts are infinite, and my fins are incJeafeg ; they ate wrongs to an infinite Majefiy : And if ~e that cornmitteth treaion agai-nft a .filken mortal, ts wor~ thy to be rac~ed, drawn and quartered ;-.what have I deferved, that have fo often lifted up ,my hand ~gainft heaven, ~.n4 have ffrlit'k at .the crown and · -~ignity of the AJm1ghtr ? Qmy
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