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·Grace
aioNnding
rent in an heavy
cafe,
for n1any
Days
to..
gether..
. .
1
4·7·
Then
began~
I with
fad and
careful
b ear~,
to
confider·of the
nature and
largenefs
of n1
y
Sin,
and
to
fearch
in
theW
ord of
God,
if
I
CO!fld
in any
place
efpy
a
Word of
Promife,
or
any
enco,uraging fentence,bywhich I tnight
take relief.
\V
herefore
I began
to confider
, that of
A4ark
3·
.All manner
~f
fin and
~lafphe
..
mics
fhall
be
forgiven unto
the
fons
of ·men
where·
with
foever
they
Jhall
blafpheme.
Which place,
niethought, at a blufh,did contain a large
and
glorious
Pron1ife
for the Pardon of high
Of–
fences ; but
confidering
the place more
fully,
I thought it was
rath~r
to be pnderfrood, as
·relating
more chiefly
to thofe who had,
while
in a
natural efrate,
con1n1itted
fuch
things
as
there
are n1entioned
;·but
not to me,
who had
not
only
receiv·ed L1ght and
Mercy,
but
that
·l
had 9oth after, and alfo contrary to that,
fo
flighted Chrift as I had done.
148.
I feared therefo_re that this
wicked
fin.)
of
n1ine
n1ight
be
that
fin
unpardonable,
o~
which he there thus
fpeaketh,
But
he
thllt
jha!ll
blafphe~eagainftthe
Holy
Ghoft, hath
n1ver
for•,
givenefs, but is in
danger
of
et.ernt?Jl
Damnation,
J~
·
M~r.
3·
And
I did the
rather
give credit to
this,
becaufe
of
that
fentence in
the
Hebrews,
For
you
kpow how t·hat vzfterWtlrds, when he would
ht~ve
inherited
~he
blejJing, he was
rejeCltd;
f6r
he found no
plac~
of repentance, th1ugh he
f~~tgMt
it
carefully
wit~
tears_.
And this
ftucl
alwa
.
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