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to the Chief of
Sinnerr.
I
I;
ful
Eye,
with
great
fear fnluefs,to
turn
over
every Leaf,
and with mUch diligence mixt
with
trembling,to· confider every
Sentence,
together with
its
natura!
force and latitude.
249.
By
this
ten1
ptation alfo,I was great–
ly
holden off'
my
former
foolifh
pratl:ice, of
putting
by
the word of pron1ife when
it
came
into
my
n1ind; for now, though I could
not
.fuck
th1t
comfort .and
· r~veetnefs
from
the
Prornife,
as·I had done at other
times,
yet,
like to
a:
man
fin~ihg,
I fhould
ca~ch
at
alll
faw ; fQrmerly I
thought I might
not
med–
dle with the
pr0mife,u
nlefs
I
felt
its
co1nfort,
bur now 'twas no time
thu~
to
do,
the
aven–
ger of Blood too
hardly did
purfue me.
-
1.
5 :).
No~v
therefore I
was glad.
to
catch
at
tht:tt
word,
\Vhich
yet
I feared ,
l
had
no
ground
nor
' rig~t
to
own;
~nd
eyen
to leap
into ·the
bofom of that
promife,th8t yet
I
fear'd did fhut its Heart againfi: n1e.Now alfo .
I fbould
labour to
t }ke
the word
as
·God hath
laid
it
down,without
refl:raioing
the
natural
force
of
one
fyllable
thereof; 0
what did I
now
fee
in that
bleff~d
Gxth of
']ahn,
And
him
that co"11es to me,! will in no
wife
cafl out!
John
6.
30.t·;
} W
I
oegan
to '
confider
~· ith
my
felf,
that God hath a
~ifger
mouth
t?
fpeak with,
than
I had
a peart to
conceive with, I
thr'nght
alfo with
n1y
fc-lf,that he fpake not his words
in hafte, or
in an unad
vifed
heat
~br:t
"ith ·
infinite
Wifdotn
and
Judgrnent,and
in
very
truth
~ nd
faithfuh1efs., '2.
S;~m
3.18.
F
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