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to
tb~
C
bief of
Sifinerr~·
,:
I
c
t~
· would at
la.11:
defpife
them.;Gen.so:t5;I6;
&c.
. 2
r
9·
Yet,
above all the
Scrip~ures
that I
~.-r!l
did meet vvith,that
in ')ojh.2o.was
the
g,reat~ft
comfort
to me,
w
hi
eh
fpeaks
of
the·f1;1
ycr
that · .
was to flee for refuge
~
And if
tf.~
apeng§):..
af
blood pur{ne the
Jltryer
~th(;n,faith
.lvfo(es
-lke)
that -
·are the ElJer.11J{ the
c-ity
~f
refuge
jhrzll
nQt
_dt:fi-
·
ver hhn
into
his
~Jand, b
r:cat"_{c
he
frnut'r his neigh–
bour
ur,
witting
ly,and
ha,~ed
h
irJi
not
tt(ore-
tirne/
Oh,bleiTed be God
f9r
this word :I was
cvn~
· vinced
tha t I
was
the
SlJyer ;
and
that
the
4-venger of
Blood
purfiH~d
n1e.,
I
felt
with '·
great
t e r ro~1r
; only
no\(.,r
it
_ren-1ained,
that
I ;
enquired wh ether I ,have
right
to
ent~:t-
the
City
of Refuge : So
I
fo ~.1nd..,
th1t
he
mui~
not,-·
wh;
lay
in
w~u t
to
jhed
Blo,od:It
was not tl1e\vil–
f ullv1urtheler .,
b dt
be who
unwittingly
did
it ~
, he w,ho did
it
UBJWares; not of
fpight,
or·–
grudge, or malice-; he that fhed
it
unwittingfy, ,
even he
~ho
did not
hate hi; neigl/,;our be...
fo te~
vVhe!·efore,
,
. ·
220 ..
·1 thought
verily,
I was the
1n1n
thatt –
mull enter,becaufe I had
fn1itten·
my
Neigh~
bour
ltnWitt iPgly,and
hated him nor
afore~
time
I
h~ted
hin1
not
afore-time;no~
I prayed unto .
him,was tender of
finning
againfthirn ; yeo,
and
agai,nftth_is
wicked temptationlh1d
.ffrove.-.
for a twelve
n1onth
betore;yetiand alfo,when
it did
pafs
through
my
heart,
it
did
in
~0 ight.
of
my
~feet!1 .~w
Jlerefore I
t lwught
l_had right
. tC?
enter this
Ctty,anq
the
El.ders,w hid1
are .
the,
i\
poftles,
were not _to
dc:liver _n1e
up.".
1"~his