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Grace Abounding
·
was I fick in my
inward
man, my Soul
w·as
clog'd
\Vith
guilt; now- alfo was al1
my
for–
mer experience of God's Goodrnefs to me,
quite taken out of
my
mind, and hid, as
if
they had never been, nor feen : Novv was
my
Sou
f
greatly pi need between thefe
two
confi·
derati0ns.Li·ve
I
m1t(/
not,Die
I dare
not.
Now
I funk and fell in
n1y fpirit,and
was
giYiJJg
up al1 for loft; but as l was ·walking up and
down in the houfe as a man in.a mofl: woful
State, that Word of God took hold of
my
heart.1~e
are
juft~fied
freely
by
his
6rac_e,throt'th
the
Redemption that
is.
in Chrift
Jifus,Rom.324.
But oh what a turn
it
n1ade upon
n1e!
' 159.Now
was
I
as one
awaked
ou~
of
fome
troublefon1 fieep and dreatn ;
and
~iftning
to
this Heavenly Sen tence,, I was as if I heard
it
thus expounded to me;
Sinner, thou think·
·
1
eft that
becaufe
of
thy Sins and Infirmities,
r ·.
c.;:nnot fave thy Scul
;
but behold,
my
Son is
by
me, and
ttp~ZI
him I
ld;k,
llnd
not on
thee,
and
detll with thee according
as
I
'tJm
pleafed
with
him.At
this I
was
greatly
.lighti1ed
in
my
. Mind, and made to
underltand
that God
could
juftifie
a finner
at
any
time,it was but
bis lookinguponChrift,andimputing
ofhis1?c–
nefits to us,and the work was forthwirh
done.
·
~6o.
And· as I \vas
thus
in a mufe,
that
Scriptu're alfocan1e with great power
upon
:my
Spirit,
Nrt
by
wor1s of
Righteoufnefi
th!tt
we
have t&ne, but ttccordin( to his Mercy he
bath[vrved
IJJ-,
&c.z
Tim
x.9.
Tt"t
3•
5· Now