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to
the
Chief
of
Sinners.
I
I
I
,
239~0f
this I \vas
maie deeply
fenfible
by
tbe
Prayer
of
-holy
David
7
who
when
he
was
under prefent' Mercy,
yet
prayed
that
Gt)d
\vonld · hold hin1 back from
Sin,
and
t
=· n1pta-
,
tion. to con1e?
For then,
f1ith
he,
I jlJall
be
upright,and 1
j1Ja/l
be
innocent
~f-r·.om
the
great
Tran_(grtffi_on,
PfJl.
16.
I
3. By
t!11s.
very
word
was
I
gauled
and
condemned quite
through
this long
temptation.
·
·
140.
That alfo was
another word
that did
much
condetnn
me
for my
fol1y~
in
the neg ...
]ea of
this
Duty,
Heb.
4··
I
6.
Let
ItS
therefore
come
buldly
to the Throne of .
Grace, thatw·e
may
obtain
Men:y
1
and find Grace
t()
help in time
o(
need:This
I had
not
done,
and
therefore was
thus fuffered to fin and fal1,according
to
what
is written, Pray
-that
you
_e.nter not into temp–
tation:
And
truly
this
very thing
is to this
day
of
fuch
weight and awe upon me, that
I
d.1re not.,
when I come
befoTe
the L,ord,
go off
my
kn6es until I intreat ,him
for
help
and
mercy
agianfr
the
temptations
that
are to
con1e;and I do befeech thee,Reader,that thou
learn to beware of
my negligence by
the
affliCtion that for
this
thing I did for
days
and
Iponths
and
years, .
with f.0rrow undergo
r
24r.Another
caufe of this temptation was,
That I had tempted God;
and
on tl1is man–
ner
did} do
it:
Upori a
time
my
Wife was
great
with Child,
and
before
her full
titne was
come, her pangs,
as of a Won1an in 1-·ravel, ·
wer~Ji'erce
and
ftron_g
upon
her,
C'Ven
as
If
f.b.e WOUld immediatclihaVe
fallen
in labOUf,
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