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iCDe Pon fflano family) 'Zook. 171 3. When you are once entred well into the fervice of God, you will find that Light which will shame all temptations, and that fweet experience of greater plea- floeswhich will makeyou loath what formerly you lo- ved : The comforts of Faith,and Hope and Love will make you fpit out the filthypleafures of the flefh. 4. Andyou will have the direâion, encouragement and example of thole that fear God : and the help of all his holy Ordinances,. 5. And which is more, you will be planted into Chrift, and receive the Communications ofhis . fpirit, and his f rength will be magnified in your week nef You are not to truft in your own ftrength, but in the Loveof God, theGraceof Chrift, and the Communion andoperation of the HolyGhoft. 6. And your Refolution is a matter of Abfolute ne- ceffty: You muft Refolve or perifh for ever : You mull Confent or be Condemnedas a Rejefter of falvati- on. God fets before you Chrift and Holinefs, and Heaven: The Devilfets before you the (n) Pleafures of fin for a moment, and everlafting damnation in the end. Take whichyou will : for one you mufti have. There is nomiddle way : nor no reconciling both to- gether. The truth is, it is that fliameful folly which you mull lament, that in fo great, fo neceßâry, fo plain a cafe, you fhould be rsnrefolved to this day ! That aman in his witsfhould live twenty years fo, as if he had been refolved to be damned ; and after that flay Ç long de- laying before he can Refolvc, whether he were heft be Iavedor no What ! Is it yet a hard clue(lion to you (n) .ileb.Y 1 ,26,&CO whether

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