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T hcfughts:
But
I thank Chrifl: Jefns,
thefe ·
thin
as
did
not
at
prefent n1ake
tne
Hack
n11. .
b
d.d
.
crying, but
rather .
1
put
n1e
more
upon
It,
(li,keher who metwtth the
adu!tere;~,Oeut.22.26.) )
in
which'
days
that
WflS
a good Word
to me,
after
I
had
fuffered
theie
things
awhile;
I ,fim
perfwt$d.ed that neither
heighth,
nor depth,
qeath,,
nor !tfe,
&c.
j!Jall{eparate
t#
fi·o?n the l..iove of
God,which is in Christ-
jejiu,
Rotn. 8.
3
8.
A'nd~:
now
I
hoped
long
life fhould not
deftroy
me, .
nor make tne mifs of
Heaven.
_1
I~.
Yet I had
fom~
fbpports
in this
temp ...··
tation, tho'
they
were
then
allquefrioned
by
n1e;That
in
1er.3.
at the firft,
\Vas
fomething
to
n1e;
and fo was the confideration of
ver.5.
of thatCha pter';
that tho'
we have
fpoken
and
done
as
evil
things as we could,,
yet
we
fhould ,
cry
unto God,
.lvfy
Father, thou art the
Gttide
·
·of
rn'y
Youth :,
and
fhould return
unto
him.
1 I
3·
I had alfo
I
once
a
fweet
Glance
from ·
that in
2.
Cor.).
t
2.
For he
hath
m.1de
him
to
be
Sin
for
us, n7ho
knew
no Sin,
th ..
u
we
might
be
made the
Right
eottfiefs
of
God
in him.
I
remem–
ber thJt 9ne day, as I
was
fiting
in a
Neigh- ,
hours
I-loufe,aod
there very
fad
iat
the
confi–
deracion of
my
n1
any
b
la
fp
h
~m
i
es; and
~
s I ,
was
faying in
n1y
l\1ind')
~Vhat
ground
lulve
I
tfl
think that
I,
rvho have been
fo
vile and abomin"'t•
ble,
J11ould
tVt'(
inherit
Eternal
Life?
That
Word came
fuddenly
upon n1e:
J,Vh~et
Jl?a/l we ).
[!~)'
to thefe thin._'<s?
If God be
for
UJ
·who
ca1~
be
ag6tinjl
u1?
H.om.
8.
31.
1: hat alfo
was
an
, I
C
4
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belp