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I
1-l
.·
Gr"ue.
Q.lou1t(!;
'~~
on the \V
heel ;
for I could · not
confider
him but as a loft and .rejeB:ed Chrift,the re–
me1nbrance of which, was as the continual
breaking of
n1y
Bones.
246.
The Scriptures alfo
w·ere
wonderful
things unto n1e. ; I
f~lW ·
that the
Truth--·and
V,erity_of then1, were the
Keys
of the King–
do·m of
Heave~;
thofe
that the Scriptures
favour,
they
n1uft
inherit blifs;
but
tho{e
that
tl~ey
oppofe
and
condern~- ,
mu.fl-
periih
for evermore:
0 this w·ord,
For
the
Sc;·ip-
\
'
tteres
cA(tnot b_e broken,
would
rend .
the
Caul
of
my
ItJeart ?-and fo would.that other,Whofe
fins
yere'mit,they,are
r(n;~'tted;bt~t
whofc
jinJ
)'C
re–
tain_,,they
are
retained:Now
l faw the Apofiles
to be
the
Elders of the
CiJy
of
Refuge;]o.fh.
29
4.thofe
that they were
to
receive
in,
were
received to life; but thofetha't they fhut out,
were to be fiain
by
the -avenger of Blood.
2
4
7.
Oh!One
Scntence :of
the
Script~nedid
mote affiifr and terrifie
my
n-,bld., I
n1ean thofe
Sentences tbr.t fiood .aganfl: n1e (as f<1n1etimcs
I thought they
:evet:y
o~e
did) rnorc l
fay
than
an
Army
offorty thoufand n1en that might
· have
cotne '
againft n1e.
\Vo be
to
hi11
a–
gainft
w
horn the
Scriptures bend
tbemfel ves.
248. By
this temptation I
was
mad~
to .fee
111ore into
tl)e
Nature of
the
Pron1ifes, than
·ever I was
~efore;for
I
lying
now trembli11g
under 'the
n1ighty
hand
of God,
continually
torn
and
rent
·by
the thund
ring
of his Juftice;
this made
·n1e with careful.
Heart,apd
watch-
I
.
ful