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Grace
a!Jounding,
that
could
.not be done but
by
continuance,
deliberate
Contrivance,
which was a great
ag–
gravation to his Sin. But
th_en
this
would
turn
'llpon
me: ' Ah! But thefe were but
Sins
a–
gainft
the
Law,
from
w
hieh there was ·a
Jefus
fent to fave them; but yours is a Sin againft
the
Saviour,
and who ihall
fave
you from
that?
170.
Then I thought on
.Solomon,and
how
l1e
finned in loving
ftrangeW
omen, in
falling
a\vay to
~heir
/dots,
in huilding them Tem–
})Ies, in doing this after light, in his old
Age,
after grea.t mercy
reteiv'd
:But the
fame
con·
clufion that cut me offin
the
former
confide-
·ration cut n1e off as
to this ; natnely that all
thofe
were
but fins
againfr
the
Law,for
which
_God had provided a remedy;
b~tt
I
had
fold
my
Savio~tr,
and
there
now
remained
no more
Sacrifice .for
Sin.
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I.
I would
then ti!d d to thofe
n1en's
fins,
tl1e fins of
Mana./Jeth,how
that he builtAltars
for
Idols in the
Houfe
of the Lord ; he
alfcr
obferved tin1es,ufed inchantment, haJ to do
with Wizzards,
was a
vVizzard,
had bis fa–
l11iliar
Spirits,
burnt his Children in the Fire
in
Sa,crifice
to
Devils,
and made
the
Streets of
·Jerufalem
run
d
O\Vn
with
the
blood
of
Inno–
c ents. Thefe,
thought
I,
are
great
Sins,
Sins
of
a
bloody
Colour ;
yea,
but it
would
turn
again
uponxne.,
Thty
are none of them ofthe na·
t11.rc
~f
yours; you
have parted mith Jefus,
yoJt
h~tve
fold.your
Sa1.'iowr.
'
I
72·
This one confideration
would
always
kill