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proitakle,
as
there
can
be
ofother
thstngs,as
mony
if it
be broken
if
it
can
-
not
go for
coin,yet it
is
good
for
the Goldfmith,
but fait
is good
for nothing
at
all,&
fo
profeffors
that
are apoltatizing from
the
truth. There
is
not
a
more miferable
creature
then
an Apofta_
tizingChriffian,they
are good for
nothina,for
now
neither
God
nor man will
truft them, they
have been forward
in
Religion,
and
they are
now fallen off, and
God
will
not
truf}
them
any
more,
nor
will man
truff
the
anlr`more
becaufe
of their
utt-
faithfulnefs
to God,
they that
re
nqt ufeful'they
are caft
out
of
mens
hearts; there
was
a
tim
thatît
may be
you
rejoyced
to
be
in
their
company,and lookedfr
upon
it
as
a
priviiedge,but
nowyou look
on
them
as
contemptible
,
they
go
up and
down
as
poor wretches forfaken of
God
and
men
,
becaufe
they are
of no
ufe at
all
to the
world,
of nonoteor
account
in the
Church,
but do hurt where ever
they
are
,
God
ordinarily
takes
their
gifts
away
from
them,
when
they
profeifed Religi-
on
they
had
gifts,
and
God
bath taken
them
away
;
now
they
cannot
pray
as
they could
formerly do
,
and
there
is a fecret
curfe
of God
that
goeth
along
with
them in
all
that
they
do,
that
in
the time of their
youth, and at firft when
they
began
to
make profefíion
of
truth
there
was force
gifts
of
God
in
them
and upon
them
for
the
edification
of
others,
but now
God
is
gone from
them,
and
their gifts
they are gone,
and
they
themfelves
are
departed
from
God,
what change
is
in them
t
and
they
go up and
clown
as
burdens
to
the
Towns and: Fami-
lies,
and
they
are
troden under
foot, nomen
in
the world do
more mifchief
or
hurt then
thofe
that
are forward in profefíi-
on
of Religion
and
yet
fall
off afterwards ,
they
then
look on
the
name
of God
as
vile
and
contemptible,
God
will
look
on
you
as
vile
and
contemptible,
and
you
are the
ffumbling blocks
and di.couragements
to
young
beginners
in
the
ways
of God
when
God
begins
to
work
on
their
hearts
, you
harden the
hearts
of
wicked men, when once
you
were
forward
,
hot and
zealous,
and are fallen off,
they that
are wicked
think
that
Re-
ligion
it
but'afancy,
and
it
is but
a
meer
humor thanmen are
poilefs'd withal,
and
fo you
are
difcouragemenrs
to
poor
weak
ones,they think, Lord what
shall
become of me ,
that
thofe
that