Bunyan - PR3329 G1 1692

74 Grace a!Jounding, that could .not be done but by continuance, deliberateContrivance, which was a great ag– gravation to his Sin. But th_en this would turn 'llpon me: ' Ah! But thefe were but Sins a– gainft the Law, fromwhieh there was ·a Jefus fent to fave them; but yours is a Sin againft the Saviour, and who ihall fave you from that? 170. Then I thought on .Solomon,and how l1e finned in loving ftrangeWomen, in falling a\vay to ~heir /dots, in huilding them Tem– })Ies, in doing this after light, in his oldAge, after grea.t mercy reteiv'd :But the fame con· clufion that cut me offin the former confide- ·ration cut n1e off as to this ; natnely that all thofewere but fins againfr the Law,for which _God had provided a remedy; b~tt I hadfold my Savio~tr, and there now remained no more Sacrifice .for Sin. 17I. I would then ti!d d to thofe n1en's fins, tl1e fins ofMana./Jeth,how that he builtAltars for Idols in the Houfe of the Lord ; he alfcr obferved tin1es,ufed inchantment, haJ to do with Wizzards, was a vVizzard, had bis fa– l11iliar Spirits, burnt his Children in the Fire in Sa,crifice toDevils, and made the Streets of ·Jerufalem run dO\Vn with the blood of Inno– c ents. Thefe, thought I, are great Sins, Sins of a bloody Colour ; yea, but it would turn again uponxne.,Thty are none of them ofthe na· t11.rc ~f yours; you have parted mith Jefus, yoJt h~tve fold.your Sa1.'iowr. ' I 72· This one confideration would always kill

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