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Grace
'aboH,Jclii;g,·
217. :
B1Jt,
not\vithftanding
all
t
hefe
helps,
and
bleifed words
ofGrace)yet that
of
Efluis
felling
of
his
Birth-right,
would frill at times
~Hfttefs
my
Confcience; for
though
I
had beell'
n1ofr fweetl
y
comforted,
and that
~1!l:
before,.
.
yet
when
that
came
into n1y
111i'nd ;-
it
\VOllld
make me fear agai_n,
I
could
not
be
quite
rid
thereof,'twould
every
day
be with
1ne:w
here–
fore· now
I
went
another way
to
work, even
to
confider the
nature
of this bla
fphemons
thought, I mean,
If
I fhould take the
words
at
the
lar~eft,
and give
tben1
their
own
natu...·
ra:
force
apd
icope,even
every ·
\vord
therein:
So when I had thus
confidered
,I found
that
if
they
were
fairly
taken,they
wonld
an1ount
to
this/That
I
had freely
l~ft
the
Lord
Jefus
Chrijf
to his
fhoJ·ce,rvhet
her
he
tt1oulcl
·be
my
Sa·viottr,
or
·
no;
'for the
wicked
words
\Vere
thefe,
Let
_him go
if
he will.
Then that
Scripture
gave n1e
l1ope,
I will
never
/ea11e
thee,
nor forfltke
thee,
Heb.
1
3.
5·
0 Lord_,
fa id
I,b_tit
1
have
left thee.
Then it arifwered again,
But I .will
n~t
lea1.1e
1hr:e.
For this I
thank
God
alfh. .
.\ .
21
8~Yct
I
was gtievous
afraid he fhould;and
fouad
it
exceeding hard
to
truft
him,fee'ing
I
had fo qffendecl
hirn;I could
have
beti1
excee,.
--ding-·gladthat
this
thought
had
-nevet befa1!e11,
for then I
tlrought
I could,with more
eafe
and
freedon1 abundance, have lean}d ori his_.Grace.,
I
fee
it
H:as
with
n1e~,
as ·it
was
with
Jofeph's
13 rethrcn, the guilt of their own
w
ickedn~fs
aid
-often
till
thCfll
~tvithfears~thattheir
Bro&her
. .
~
·
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