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a!Jouncling
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I94·
Bnt before
many
weeks
were over
I
beg8.n
to
c~1
pr;nd
again,fearing
leaft,notwi~h
ftan~ing
all that I
had _enjoyed,
yet I
might
be
deceived,
a ~ d
deftr yed at
the
lafl:;
for
this
conGdera tion
can1e
H:rong
into
tny
mind.
That
'lt{hatever
COYi~(ort
and
peace
I thought I
might
have
from
the
word
o_f
tfi::
Pr"mife
of
L~fe,
_
yet unle(s
there _
could
be
.found
in
m_y
refrefhment a
concu~rence
"'nd
a~;reernent
in
the Scriytl-tres,let
me think
what I wtll thereof, and
hold
it never
fo
faft._
I
Jhould find no fuch thing
At
~he
end,
for
the
Scrip·
~ure
cannot be broken,
john
I 0.
3)·
195~
Now began
my
heart
again to ake;
and
fear
I might
tneet
with
difappointment
at
the
l~ft.
Wherefore I began· with all feriouf ..
nefs
to exaa1ine
-tny
former comfort
and
to
confider whet
her one
that
had
finned as I
had
done, might with confidence trufr upon
the
faithfulners of God, laid down in
thofe words
l}y
which
i:
bad been comforted; and on
which
I
had leaned
my felf: But
nuw
were
brou6ht
~hofe
fa
yings
to
rny
mind.
For
it
is
impoffible
for thofe who were
once
enligh~ned,
and have
t~-
fl-ed the
He~tvenly
Gzft,
and
n:ere
made
_partakers
of
the
Holy GhoJJ
and have
tafted
th1
goodJ!Vord.
of
God
and
the
Powers of
the
World
to
come, If
they ]ball fall away
to
renew therr;
Again Hntl
lt·
pentance,
Heb.
6.
For
if tve fin
rvilljully,
after
we have
received
the
Knowledge
ofthe Truth
lht~e
rem~ins
no
m~re
facri.fice
for
fin, but a cert ,;m
. featfullookin~;
.for
1udg·dment
and
Jtery
indignA·
t~·on,
whichjbNll
devour the .AJverfaries,Heb.l ()·
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