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lure
as
the
Gofpel
is
true.
'
Therefore
let
it be
fpeedily
your
work to
try,
whether
this
be
your
cafe
or
nor.
Have
you been
thus
enlightned, convinced,
and
renew-
ed,
to
believe in
Chrift,
and
the life
to
come,
and
to
give
up
your
felt
in
a faithful Covenant to
God your
Fa-
ther,
your
Saviour and
San&ifier,
to
hate
your
fin,
and to
live
and
love
a
holy life,
in
mortifying
the
flefh,
and
feeking Heaven before the
world
?
If
this
be
not
your
cafe,
I
fhould
but
flatter
and deceive
you, to
tell you
of
any
hope
of
being faved
till
you are
thus
re-
newed and ¡unified.
Never imagine
a
lye, to
quiet
you
till help
is
pain.
No
one
that
is
unregenerate
or
unholy,
shall ever
dwell with
God.
Yet
you may be
faved,
if
yet
you
will
be
truly
converted
and fan&ified
but
without this
alï'uredly
there
is
no
hope.
IV.
Therefore
I
counfel you
in
the
Name of
Chrift,
to leokbackupon
your
(p) finful
life
with
farrow
;
not
only
becaufe
of
the danger to
your
felf,
but
alf`o
becaufe
you
have ofended
God!
What
think
you
new
of
a
fin-
ful
and
of
a
holy
life
?
Had
it
not
been
better
that you
had valued
Chrift
and
Grace,
and lived in
the love
of
God,
and
in
the
joyful hopes
of
the
life
to come, and
denied the
finful
delires
of
the
fiefh,
and been
ruled by
the Law
of
God,
and
fpenr
your
time
in
preparing for
Eternity
?
Do you not heartily with that
this had been
your
courfe
?
Would
you take this courfe
if
it
were
tb do
again,
and
God recover
you
?
Repent,
repent,
from the bottom
of your heart, of
the time you have
loft,
the
mercy you
have abufed ,
the grace you
have refifted
,
of
all
your
fie
fhly
,
worldly defires
,
words
and deeds, and
that you
gave not up
your
(p)
Luke
r3.3,5á
Luke
.
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