fo`love Godful:y then it was better with me then it is now ; Ä hen I had more comí rt, mor peace more fafety, more bleffing then I .rave now ; And let fuch know, that though it were full with God, forever to rejed ahemwhohave torfakenhim ; junto fay , th:t vanity fhòuld be their portion , who have turned after lyin:.. vanities; and many of the Ancients have made the cafe of finch excee:ing doubtfuil, efpecially ifafter convidivo, theyhave forfakenGod again &again as Clernens Alexan&inw thought, that Lod ri.ight give fuca the flit and fe- cond repentance, but if they `-ell oft ner; there was no renuing them by re- pertance. AndOrigen ferred likewifc to be ofthefjme mind, in h s 5 . Hemily upon Leviticus, chap. 25. SoTertulliar: in his Book of 'repentance: Godgrin: Ë faith he) a pcondrepentance, but no far- ther. Thus we fee the (fridnef eoftheft Ancient times. But though thefe leave thefe men exceeding comfortleffe, yet let them knew, that theLordcals them to returne again unto himfelfe: For th9agh it be (faith the Lord) that if a wife have playedelse harlot 44ed'beebepu. away 4u2á become anotkerrains , her Fitt/5- fRíc: 315 Clemens A lex. quoted bySympfon in his hifto- ry of the church. in the fecond century. Tertullian thought theircare defperate, efpecially who fell into the fin of uaclean- . Lib. de pu- dicit. fpeak- ingof that place, Heb. 6.6. Itisim- pofble that they who rocreonce in- lightened, oJc. He (ayes, thatthis Au- thor knew no fecond repentance promifed to the Adulte- rer andFor- nicator.
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