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G-.uace
abounding
tat'ions ;
nan1ely?
Bla(p!Jemy, Defperation,
and -·
,
the 1
i
ke ;
fhew
i
:
g
that
the
Law
of
Mufes,
as
well as the [)evil, Dea,th and
Hell, hath
a
very
great hand therein:
The whic.h, at firft;
was -very fl:ran0e to me; but conflderingand .:
watching, I
fonnd
it
fo indeed. But
of par.
ti_culars here,
Lintend~ nothin·g
;only this
tne–
thinks I muft
let
fall
before
all
rrten:
I do .
prefer this Book of
Mtzrt iti Luther
upon
tl1e
G
al /1-tians
(excepting the
Holy
Bible)
before-·
all the
B8oks
thar ever I
have feen,
as
tnoft
fit -
for a
wounded
Confcience.
.
I
3
r. And
110w
I found, as J:thought,that I ·
loved Chrift dearly:
0!
methought,
n1ySoul ,
cleaved unto him,
tny
-affections cleaved unto
hhn: I felt Love to
- h~nl
as hot as Fire, and –
now; as
Job
faid,
I_
thought I
jhqu/tl
die
in
my ·
Nefl-;
but I did quickly find
thet'
my
great ·
Love was but
little,
and
that
I, who had, ay
I .thought, fuch
~ulining
Love to Jefus Chrift,
could
-let him go
again
for
a
very
trifle.
Cod ·
can tell how to
a-bafe
us,
and.
can hide
Pride ·
..from Man.·
Q!1ickly
after
this,
my
Love
was·
, tried to
purpofe.
·
IJ2.For after
the Lord had
in
this
tnanner; .
thus gracioufly
d-elivered
me
from this
great··
and·
f1re
Temptation, and
had
fet
me
down
fo.fweetly
in the
Faith of
his
holy Gofpel,and,
r1ad given
n1e
fuch ftrong. Confolation, and
bleffed
evidence
f~·om
Heaven,
touching
my. .
intereft
in his Love, through Chrift; ·.
the
~fempte.r-can1e
t1p9n me
again,_
and
that
with ·