83 / 186
to the
Chief
nf
St1nters.
73·
bhn feared hitn,
ferved
hini; but
now
I am
a
Rebel,
l
have
fold
him,
'I
have
fai~1,
let him
go
if
he will
but
yet
"he has
Gifts
for
Rebels,
·
and
then
why
not
for
me.
167. 1'his forr etin1es I tho·ught on, and
rnould labour to take hold thereof,
that
fome .
tho' fmall
r~frefhment
n1ight
have
been
con~
.
ceived by me: But in this ·alfo I 1niffed of
n1y ~ ·;
Ddire
1
I was
driven with
force beyond
it,
f
was like a tnan
going to execution, even
by
that
Place
m
here
he wottld fain creep in,
and
hide
him(e~(,
bt1t
n~ ay
not. .
-
·
· 168.
Ag·lin
;after
I
had thus
confidered
the ·
fins of the
S~-tints
in
particular,and
found
1nine
·
.went
beyond
them,then
1
began to
thioJc
thus -
with
my
felf:Set
~afe
I
fuould
put
all theirs
to–
gether., and
mine alone
againft
them,n1ight
I
not
then
find fome
Encouragement?
For
if ·
mine,
tho' bigger than
any
one,
yet
Ihould be ·
but -
equal"
to
all,
then
there
is Hopes: For
that Blood that hath Vertue enough in
it
to ·
\Vafh
away
all
theirs,
hath Vertue
enough
in it ·
to do
away
1nine,
tho'
this
one
be full as big,
if
not bigger than
flll theirs.
Here again,
I
·
,
·fhoulc! ,confider the fim of
David,
of
Solomon,
of
Manaf{e'th,of
Peter,and
the reft of the great
Oftenders,
and fhould
alfe
labour
what
I ·
mi&ht,
.with fairnefs, to.aggravate and
height
their
S1ns
by
feveral
C1rcumftances~
·
169.
·I fhould think with
my
felf;
thatDa~
vid
filed
Blood
to
cover hisAdultery,
and
that
by
the
Sword
of thildren of
Amman:
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D
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/that
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