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The
Preface';
about
the Sacraments
I
have
defendedagain
in
a
Volume
by
it
(elf.
The fecond
is
this
in
hand
.
which
I bad
fj
oijb-
ed
about
fifteen
or
ßxteen
months
ado.
The
third
is
about
the
Intrumental
efficiency
of
Faith
to our
fu,lificati
en,
of
which
i
had
.31
fo
begun above
4
twelve
month
five.
But
it
bath lately
?leafed
our wife
and
gracious Lord
to
call
this Reverend
Brother
to
himfelf
:
whereupon,though
this fir/I
Difputation
was
gone
fo
far,thit
¡could
not
well
recall
it,yet
the others ,which
was
not
out
of
my
power,
I
re-.
folved
to
condemn to
perpetual
filence.l
f
you
ask
me
it
rea-
fon
of
this
re
folution,
t
malt
de
/Ire
that
my
di
fpo/ìtion
and
pafsion
may
go
for
part
of
a
Reafon
this
once.
The
grief
of
my
heart
for
the
lofs
of
this
precious
fervant of
Chrift
would
not
permit
me to
appear
any
further
in
a
way
that
Teemed
to
militate
with
the
dead
, and
with
one
whofe
death,
we
have
all
fo
much came
to
lament.
_4las,
that
our
fin
Mould
provoke
our
dear
Father
,
to
put
out
the precious
Lights
of
his
Santluary, and
to
call
in
fuck
experienced
faithful
Labourers
,
while
ignorance,
and
error,
and
prophanefs,
and all
Vice
doth
fo
plenteoufly
furvive.
When thefe
plants
of
Hell
do
thrive
upon
as,
under
all
our
care
to weed
them
up
:
what will
they do
when
the Vineyard
is
left
defolate ? Though God
in
mercy
is
railing
up
a
fupply
of
young
sues,
that
may
come
to
be
Pillars in
their
Styes
:
yet
alas,
what
difference
will
the
Church
find
between
thefe,
and
their
grave
experien-
ced
Guides
:
and
bow
many
years
Rudy,
and
experience,
and
patience,
is
necefjary
to
ripen
thefe
tender
plants,
to
bring them
to
the
gesture,
and ftability, andfirength
of
fuck
a
this
Blued
fervant
of
chrifi,
that
is now
taken
from
us.
The
fenfe
of
our
lofs
cloth
make
it
doubly
bit-
ter
to
my
thoughts,
that
ever
I
was unhappily
engaged
in
any
way
of [crying
the
Lord
of Truth,
which muff
con
-
sein
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