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Country di.d
open
'"Nide
againfl: me;
bnt
I
was
p~r_fw~ded
of this., not to
render
railing
f~r
rathng.,
but to
fee .
how
m:tny
of their
,carnal
Profe.lfors
I could con vinee of
t.heir
n1ife.rable .ftate
.by
the-, L~
w,
and of the
want
a
ad
worth of Chrift;
for,
thought I,
This
]hall aYf_{.rvcr for ?ne in
tirJtJe
t9
C()n-Jf,
when
they
j1uJ!l
be
for rny
hire before their
.face,
Gen•.
30·•
33·
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285. I
never
ca~ed
to meddle vvith.things.
that were
·controverted,_ and ,
in
difpnte
amongfr the
Sah1ts,
efpecially
things
of the
loweft Nature ;
yet
it
pleafed
me
much
to
contend
with great
earneftnefs for
the word
.of Fait:'h, and the Re£niffion of Sins
by
the
Death and Suffering of Jefi.is. ; .,hut I
fay,
as
to
other
things, I
fhoqld let ;
them
alone,
be~
caufe
I
fa
w
they engendred ftrife,
a~d
be–
caufe that
they n·either in
doing-;
nor tn lea•
ving undone, did
comtnend ·
us tn God to
be hb : Befid es, 1
i1~
w
my
Work ·before me
did run into another
Channel,
even
to
ca.rry
an a.wakening wor<i ; to that-therefore did I
ftick and
ad
here.
'2~6.
I
never
endeavoured
to,
no·r
durft
make ·ufc of, other
mens
line~,
Rom.
I
5·
IS.
(
tb~ugh
I coudemn
not
all
that
do
)_for
I
verily·
thought,
and found
by
exp~nence,
. that what was· taught me by the ,Word
~nd
Spirit 'of Chrifr, could be fpokeo, ·maintain–
ed and ftood to.,
by
th~
fou ndeft and
b~!l:
eftablifhed ·confcience ; and
though I will