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3o

Grace

Rbotttnding

MofeJ

counted

clean, and unclean :I

thought

thofe Beafts were Types of Men ; the

clean

Types

of thern

that we-re

the

neople

of

God;

but the

unclean

Types of fuch as were the

Children of the wicked One. Now I read,

tnat

the clean Beafts

Chewed- the Cud;

that

is, thought I, they Jhew us., we muft feed

upon the Word of God :

They alfo

parted

the

Ho~f:.

l

thought that fignifiedlr we mull:

part,

if

we •pould be faved, with the ways

of

ungodly

men.

Ana

alfo, in further read–

ing aqout

th ~ n1 ,

I

found,

that thongh we

did chew

the

Cud, as the

~are

;

yet if we

walked v ith

Cla '"

s,tike a Dog .;

or if

we

did

part the 1-loof, like the

Srvine

;

yet if we did ·

no t

Chew the Cud, as the Sheep, we

w~re

fti ll ,

for all tha t ,

but ·unclean: For I thought

the

Hare

to

be a

Type

of

thofe that talk of

the

Wo rd,

yet

walkin

the ways uf fin; and

that

the

Swine

was like

him that parteth with

l1is

Outward

Polutions,

but

-frill

wanteth

the

Vv

7

ord of Faith,

without

w

hi

eh,

'there

could be no way of Salvation; let a man

be never,

[o

devout,

D1tt.

I

4.'. After this, I

found

by

R.:adiog

the Word, that thofe that

n1ufl:

be Glvr ified -. ith Chrifi: in another ·

~/

orld.,

mufl

be

ea/le~

by

him

here;

called to

the part1king of a fhare in his Word and

Righteou fhefs, and to the Comforts and firff

Fruits ·of his Spirit, and to a peculiar intereft

in all thofe Heavenly things, which do in–

deed, fore

fit

the Soul for _that Refr, and .

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