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Poo;
ipano Jamilp
Zook,
We'lived
here,
we
muff (peed
in
Heaven
or
Hell for
ever
and
yet
alas
how
fenflefly have
we heard
and
known
all
this
?
And
how
little care have we taken
for
our
Souls, that
they might
be
faved
from
fin
and
Hell,
and
live with
Chrift
in
the heavenly
Glory,
in
comparifon
of
the care that
we have taken
for our
bodies, which
we
know mutt
fhortly
turn
to
duff
Alas,
pride
and
folly, and the
vanities
of
this
World
,
and examples
of
Sinners,
and the
floth, and appetite,
and
lufts
of
our
own
Flefh,
have deceived us,
and
turned
away
our hearts
from
thee. And
while we
quieted our
confcience
with
the
name
of
Chriftianity,
and
a
dead and outfide
thew
of
Worfhip,
we
were
ftrangers to
a
holy
and
heavenly
Heart
and
Life, and
drew
near thee with our
Lips, while
our Hearts
were
far
from
thee. And
thole
of
us
whom
thy Grace bath
turned
from
this
fin and
vanity to
thy
felf, did
too
long
$and
our,
and
delay our Converfion,and refill
thy Spirit.
And
fince we
have ferved thee,
alas
how
poorly,
how
coldly,
how
unconftantly,with
what
wavering
&
divided
hearts,
as
if
we
were loth to
leave
the world
and
fin
;And
by how many failings
have we
quenched
thy Spirit,
and
wronged thy
Glory,&
our Brethrens
fouls
and
hindered
our
own comfort
and
increafe
of Grace
?
We
have
too
little
differed
in
heart
and life
from the Ungodly,
and
from our former
Rate
of
fin
;
And no
wonder
if
our
Faith,
Hope
and
Love
be
weak,
and
if
we have little
of
the
joys
of thy love
and-our
Salvation.
Bur,
O
thou the merciful
Father
of
Spirits,
have
mercy
upon
us ;
Forgive
our
great
and
manifold
fins
r
Woe
to
us
that ever
we
were
born, if
thou
deal
with
.us
as
we deferve
.
How
quickly then
(hall
we
be
in
Hell
,
paft
all
remedy,
in endlefs pain and defperati'on
?
where