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~ Grace
A!Jou;;r/htg
This
therefore
\"as-great
Con1fort
to
me.and
did
give me
much ground
of
hope~
·
'
221.
Yet being
very critical,
tor
my, fma.rt
llad
n1ade
me th'at I knew
not
what
groHo.d
w.as fure
enougH
to
bear
me,
I
had one
que–
fhon
that;
my
Soul
did
much
de
fire
t()
be re-
..
fol:~d
about:.
and that was,
Wheth~r
it
be
pojfi,ble
[1r
any
SoHl
that
h11th
indeed
flr1;(1~4
the .
unpardonable
fin,yet
a_{ter
that to
receivc,though
bJtt the .
leaft true Spiritual Comfort from
G'ad
through
Chrift
?·
The
which after
l
had much
confrdered, I found
the
anfwer
was,
No~
,
they could
not · .~
and that
for
.thefe
Reafons.·
2.22.
Firfr, Beca·uf.e
thofe that
have finned
' !h~.t :
fin,
they
·are
deb1rred a
lbelre
in the
·Elood
of
Ght+i~
and
being
fu11t
out
of
that,
:.·they
.mufl: needs be void of the l·eaft
ground
.
~f · hop~, .
and
f.o
·of
fpirilual
comfort,
for to
j ltch
there rcmain.s' no;
miire.,
Sacrifice jor fin,
:·.Heb.
lo. .
2:6
1
27.
Secondly, becaufe the)!
are
.
denyed a
fl1are
in
the
Promife
of Life :
~fhey
,.
·, fhaB never be for.given,neither in this World
nor
~n
that
which
is to come,
Mat.
12.
31.
T hirdly
1
The Son
of
God·excludes them
al·
,
fo
from a fhare
in
his
Bleffed
Interce1fron,
being
for ever 'afhamed to own. them
both
before his-
holy
Fa
the.r.,
I
aRd
the_bleifed.
An~
~els
in Hea.ven .
Mark 8:
.
.
-
. 223.•
When-l had wlth much
de.~lberatton
.
'onfidcred of this
tnatter
,an..<d
collld
not but
conclude that
the Lord
hatb
comf~rted me~
· a.u.cl-lha·t too
after.
this .my:
wicked
fin ;
then
-
-
111ethought.