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I
to the
Chief
of
SitJ;ters.
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9
f
Even as
Ef~u,who
for one morfel ofmetft,fold his
B£rthrifht:
For you
knr;w how that
afterwards,
when
lv~ wot~ld
have
inherited the 'b(ejJing')he
w~s
rejeEfed,
for he found no place · of
r~pentance,
thrJt~gh
he fought
tt
carefully
withTe.ars,Heb~
12.
198. Now
\Vas
the Word
of
the Gofpel
forced
fron1
n1y
Soul ·; fo that-no promife or
encourage01ent
was to
be
found in the Bible
for me:And
now would
that
faying work
up–
on
my
Spirit to
affiicr
me,Rejoyce,notO
Ifrael,
for
joy
AS
other
People:
Ho
f.
9·
I
.For I faw indeed,
there
was caufe
of
reJOYCiug for
thofe
that
held
to Jefus ; but as
for me,
I
had
cut
my
felf
off
·by
rny
tranfgreffions, and
left
my
felf
neither
· foot-bold,or
h~nd;-hold,
amongft all the
frays
and
props
in
the
Precious
Word
of Life.
1
99·
And truly, I did now
feel
my
felf~o
fink
into a gulf,1s an houfe whofe fot1ndation
i-.,
deftroyed, I did liken
n1y
felt~
in
this
con–
dition,
uqto
the
cafe
of
fo1ne
child that was
fallen
into a l\1ill-pit ;
who,
thongh
it
could
make
fotJle
·fhift
to fcrabble and fpraw l..in the
\Vater, yet
beca~1fe
it
could find ·neither
hokt
for ha1id
nor
foot,ther·efore at
]aft
it
muftdie
in
that
condition. So
foon
as
this
frefu
affault
had
faftned
on
n1y
Soul,
that
Scripture came
into
tny
heart,
This
for
many days,
Dan.
to.
14.
And indeed, I
found
it
was fo · for I
cou~d
not ?e delive_red,nor brought
t~ p~pce
.· agatn
7
until
well· nigh
two years
and
an
half •
were compleatly finifhed.
Wherefore
thefe–
words,
though
in
the1nfel
ves.,they
tended to
E
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Difcou..