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Grace
a!Jouncling,
.not fbffer
then1
to
fall
wi~hout
the
Range
of
· Mercy:
But as for me,I was gone, I had done
· it;
he
would not
peferve
me, nor
keep me.
but
IiJffered n1e)becaufe
I was a
Reprobate
t~
, fall as
I
had
done.
Now did
thofe
bleffed Pia–
,
ces, that fpeak of God's
keeping
hi~
People
~
fhine
like the
Sun before
n1e,the'
not to
corn~
·fort me, yet to fhew me the bleffed ftate a·nd
heritage of thofe
whotn
the Lord
had bldfed.
I
s8.
Nov;,I
faw,
that
as
God had his
hand
in
all
Providences
and Difpenfations
that
, over...
Iook
his
't:lett,fo he had
pis
hand in
all
the Temptations
that they
had
to
fin
againfl:
l1in1; not to animate them unto
W ickednefs,
but
to
chufe
t,h~ir
Tetnptations
and
Trouble
·for
then1;
and a1fo to
leave then1,for
a
time,
to fuch
fins
only,
as
might
not deftroy,
but
hutnblethem; as
n1~ht
not
put-them
beyond,
· but
lay them in the
Way
of
the renewing of
his
Mercy.
·But
Oh,
what
love,what
care.,
what
kindnefs
and
mercy did
I now fee
mixing
it
felf
with.
the
1noft
fevere and
dreadful of
all
God'sW
ays to
his
People
!
He
would
letDa·
vid, HeZwekiah, Solomon, Peter,
:and
othe'rs fall,
but he would not let them fall into fin nnpar–
don;;t
ble,nor into
F eH for
Sin.
Oh,
thought
I,
thefe be the
n1en
that God hath, loved, thefe
be
the £nen that
God,
tho'
he
chaftifeth
them,
keep_s
thern
in
fafety
by
hin1;
and them
whom
be makes to
abide
under
the
fhado-w
of the
Ahnighty.
But all
thefe
thoughts .'added
for~
.
row,
grief
and
horror
to
me)as.
whatever
J
now
· · .. ..
·
thou