42 ieoc pop; anzfAiilÍfpZook. be they what they will in other refpeds : And you have alwayes an ill word for thofe that you are fallen out with, and that you think have wronged you, or, that 'think ill or meanlyof you, let them be never .fo; honeft in all other refpec`ts.. In a word, The Loveof God, and a' Heavenly mind, is a thing that will in fame tneafure Phew, it felf, by preferring God and Heaven (till before all : And I could never perceive any fuch ,thing by you ; Which made me fear your cafe was as bad as you nowconfefs ir. I do not name thefe things as if each one of them by it Pelf were acertain fign of an ungodly perfön : How far an honeft minded man may be carried in a paflion to a curfe or railing fpeech, or an oath, or through difa- bility may omit any family duty, or through a wrong opinion of it may neglect the Lords day, I amnot now determining. But fore I am that God faveth none but thofe that Love, Honour and obey him above all ,others, and make him their Trutt, and Hope and Hap- pinefs; and that Chrift faveth none but thofe that value him as their Saviour, and give up themfelves to he Laughc and ruled by him, and fanc`tified by his spirit, and that Heaven is a place for no carnal worldling that loveth the world above it, and feeketh this world be- fore it, and that mindeth molt the things of the flefh , and had rather (t) fatisfie than mortifie his finful lofts andwill. And as far as ever I could perceive by your Converfarion, this. is your cafe, though you are no: fo gray wicked and unconfcionableas the debauch, ed fort, ". S. I con`efs Inever made the faving of my foul, fo (t) Yoh. 8. 3 4 Cnuch
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