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Gr~:;ce
abounding
Firft,
I coufeffed I was fallen, but not fallen .
fl".vay,
th,1t
is fron1 the profefi1on
df
Faith
in
Jefus unto Eternal Life.
·
. ·
Secondly,
I confefled
that
1had put
Jefhs
Chrifr to
fham3
by
my
fin, but
not
to
open
Jhc:zme,
I did
not
deny
hin1
before Iv1en,
n·1r
conden1n
hitn
as a
fruitlefs
one
before
the
vVorld.
'1-hird~y,
Nor did I find that God had fhut
me -ui;, or
denyed me
to con1e
(th_ough
I
fou nd
i t
hard work
indeed
to
cotne)
to him
-~
l~y
f()rrow
and
rep~ntance:
Bleffed be God
for
nnfcatchable
Grace.
.
·
22) :T'heh
I
confidered
that
in the
tenth
of
the
Hebrews;
and fourid
that the
rPi~{tJl
fia
- there
m::iitioned.
i-;.
not
every
wilful fin but
tbat ii rt which
doth
tbrow
offChrifr,and then
l~is
Con1n1Jndn1ents
too.
Secondly,
l'hat
n1uit
altr) be done
openly,
before
(\VO
or
thnze
'vVitnefT~s,to ~nfwer
that
of
the Law
,'V
er(.
2
8.
_Thirdly,
~J;his
fin
cannot
be
con1mitted
but
wlth
grea~
defpite
done to
the
Sp~rit
of
Grace;
defp\
ling
both
the
dilfvVafions from
·
that fin, an_d
the
-perfwafions to
the
co~tra
ry.
But.the Lord
know~,
though
this
my·un
was
devili!h,
yet
it
did
no~
an1ount
to
thefe.
226.
And as touching
that
in
the
~welfth
of the
1-.lebrews,about
E(au's
fi.J:}ing his Birth–
right, though this
was
that
wl1i~h
killed me,
and ftood like
a ~fpear
againft me;. yet npw, I
. ' did confider,
Firft,
1"hat
this was
not
a
h~uty
.
· thought agai_nfl: a
contin~1al
labour
oi
tis
'
Mind·