104 ' \fh~ Saint'SJure· gerous, if not irrecoverable. If~ · man· (as it is-. Heb. 6.) hath once beene enlig,htemii;· and t~el!'fa!J . away) it ifimpo(Jibltto be renewed by -repentance. l'· know that place principally to be underllood of the highefi degreeofApofiacie;andfalling away; but bee that falls away fromany good courfe,and good -beginnings, falls towards that irrecovera– ble fall, and-mak~s-himfelfe. more uncapable of repentaQce,than ifhe never hadbeen enlightened; ,or ftept into the way of Truth : And it is juH: with God, to puniJb fuchwith-a reprobate fenfe, and hearts that cannot repent-. . · . l i then deepely and neerely concernes us ; for once wee.have felt t~e fweetneile of Grace, and tafied fJf the-Powers of the world trrcome; todrinke deeper of theWaters of_Life, .and to follow hard t9wayds ·the marke, for the price of the high caUingof ·. God in -Chriff-Iefm• . When wee feele any good rriotions and pu'rpofes arife in our hearts, let us I<1bo,ur to fol!ow them, tonouri{h them, to b-low them up, tomake a fire ofthem ·; left theyonely · _, bnt·make a. ilafh, and paife away as the Light– ning. Le-t us put them in pra.Uife with zeaie, and confi:aric-;ie, that we bebot ,as the unfaithfu11 \'\'aters, which in the Surnmer are dry~d tl p ; or as tJ1e dead Trees, which perifh in 'vVinter: but that w~ remaine vyhole · and found; pure and per.;; fett, as the living Waters and-Olives of the Lord; that ever(hed forth the·ir fwedne!fe and fatneffe. Lee us make a Covenant, _even a ·Covenant ·(as the Scripture, fpeaketh) of Sal~' dm~ble,and1 perpetuall, with the Lord, to· liv~ before him ·in ' - holindfe
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