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Grace abounding
m·e
with
an everlafting love,
}er.3 r.3,"'.
I had
no foooer
f~ id
it
1 ·
but with
fweetnefs this re.
turned
upon me as an eccho
or
founding
a–
gain,
I
have loved thee with
an evcrlflftin(T
love.
Now I went to bed in-quiet; alfo
when
I a–
waked the
next
n1orning,
it
\~"as
frefh
upon
my
Soul;
and
I believed
it.
191.
But ,yet
the
Tempter
left
me not,
for
it
could not be fo little as
cui
hundred
times,
that
he, that
day,
did labour to break
my
Peace.
0 h, the
con1bats
and
conflias that
I
did
then
meet
with, as
I
Jtrove
to hold
by
this
Word
!
That
of
Efou
would
fly
in
my
Face like Lightning : I
fhould
be
fornetimes
up and down twenty times in an Hour;
yet
God
did
bear me up, and keep
my
Heart up–
on
this Word ;
from
which I had
alfo
for
fe·
' veral
Days
together
very
much fweetnefs,
and
comfortable Hopes
of Pardon :
For thus
it
v1as
made
out
unto
me, ,
!loved
thee whil{f
thou waft committing this
fin,
I
loved
thee before,
I love
thee
ftill;
and wfll
love thee
for
·ever.
·!91.
Yet
I
faw
my
fin moft.
barbarous~
and
a
filthy
crime, · and
could
not
but
co_nclude,
and
that with great
ihame
and
aftonilbment,
that I
had
horridly
abufed
the I-loly
Son
of
God ; wherefore
1
felt
my
foul
greatly
to
,
l0ve and
pity him, and
my
Bowels
to yearn
, towards him;
for
I
faw
·he
was ftill
my
friend,, and did
reward
me
goo4
for
evil;
yea,theLove
and
Affection that
·therl did
burtJ
w·ithin,to
my
Lord
and
c;avigur
]efus
Chrift;
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»
.
' .
did