z , . ,. Vhe.at;r t0'>,é'hfgsth`Corìcerning ami fallen from that [late of bleftedneffe wherein I was fir[t created,into a molt miferable and accurfed condition? I have grievoufly. finned, and God is highly provoked, thefe'ntcnte of táts3 iw is already gone forth, I atri Phut up ttnder4rdthl- and if t have my defert, I can expert nothingbut the terribleexecution offearefull vengeance denounced. Mortaltcie as a worme corrupteth my body : ¡ignorance and luft tyrrannize in my foule: nay condition is expofedto a:thoufand'vanities and wearifome courfes; and through feare of death theupíhot ofevils, lam tub- jec`t to bondage all my life. In my firPt eftate I was made far above all vifible Creatures, andby free bounty lifted up to be the favourite of the mot High G )d: hut bywil- full difabedience, I am fallen into Gods difnleafure, and die prifoncrunder the revenging juft ice ofthe law. Nor is my wretched condition worfe then my careleftieffe to be delivered from ir. The bruit beafts take it as a grie- vous thing to be enfnared and taken : but I havedeligh- ted in bondage;andcounted it a liberty to live a llave to Sa- than, and to follow things and courfes pleating corrupt nature. ThouLord ofthine infinite grace haft proclaimed liberty, publifhed peace, and made offer of a better (late and condition in Chrift, then what I formerly loft in Adam: But I preferred fpirituall thraldom to liberty, death to life, and chofe ratherto follow the temptations ofSathan, and to fulfill the hits ofthefleh; then tocome unto Chrift that I might be faved. The men of this world are wife in their generation, to accept of earthly commodities when they be offered, and not toput by the opportunity.: but when the Lord bath made protnife of everlafttng life, ifI would renounce the pleafures offin, and foregoe the vanities of this world, I have followed vanityand neglected mercy, I have derpifed the great fal- vation, and walked in the paths ofdeath and condemna- tion, O Lord, it is thine owne worke of grace in me, that ever I did bethinke my felfe of the danger of my courfe, and repent to lay hold upon the prornifes oflife.. Not
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