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Grace
~bounding
· Thus he fpent
his
latter
years
in
imitation
of
his great Lord aud Mafter, the
. ever~
blef–
fed /
jefus;
·He
\~ent a~o_ut doingr: ~ood,
fo
· ·that
the
n1oft
prying
Cr.t
uck, or even
Malice
ller relf is defied to find -even upon the
nar–
roweft
frarch_or
o~fervation
a-ny
fully
or
ftain upon his Reputation,
~vith
which he;.
xnay
be
juftly
charged ; and this
we note as '
a
challer.rge
to
thofe that have had
the
leaft
:regard for
_hi~1,
or them of his
.Perfwafion, .
and
ha~e
one
way
or enher appeared
in .·
the Front
ot
thofe
that oppreffed
hirr;
and for
the ·turning
w
Llofe
hearts
in
obedi–
ence· to
the
Comtnillion
and
Cornmandn1ent
.given hin1 of
·God ; he frequentlY
Pt~ ayed,
arul
iometimes
fought
a
Eleffing for
the1;1~
~ven
with
tears,
the eifeEts
of
w
bkh
they
may .
IJ~rad
venture.,
though undefervedly
l1ave
found
in
their Per fons,
Friend8~ Rela~
tio.ns or .Efiates ; for God will
hear .the
Praye-r of the
Faithful, and Anfwer them,
even for
thofe
that
vex
them :.
t;s
it
happened
.in the
Cafe
of
;fob~s
praying
for . ~
the
three
, Perfons that .bad
been grif
v
cus
in
their
reGII' ·
_proa'b
agai!~ft
hin:9
even in
tb~ ~ay
of
hJs
forrow
~
E1:1t
yet
let
rn~ con~e_a J~.~tle
11,eater .
to
parucular~,
znd
penods .ot
tHrH:
_fer
the
better
refrt
fl1111g
the
rr~e1nonts
of .
~bofe
tbat
It
new bis Labour
at~d
Sr.fi"t r
in~
;
and
for
the
iatis(altion
of
an
that
fuall
ft'iid .
this50t)l<.
Aft~r
be was
ftnfibly
'onviCl~d
of the
, 1Ai,·kcd
State
®f hi$
Lif~, JU~d
cv!lY€rttd;
b~
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