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Row Mini, lers are
fail
robe unfavory.
631
that
were
fuch
great
ones in
the
Church of
God
as
they
were,
and
they
fall
off that were
fo
eminent
in
profelfion
;
Oh
Lord
how (hall
I hold out
if
they
fall
off
:
you are
difcouragements
to others ,
thofe that made profeilìon afore
and may be
not
grown
prophane in
their
profetlion
neither ,
but they grow
lluggitla,and
they are vexed to fee
young ones
come up more
forward
then
they
;
and
the
truth
is
this, they íhould
lay
their
hands
on their
hearts
and
fay,
Have
not I loft
my favour ,
and
am
not
I
more.fluggifh,
and
is
it
not juft
with
God
to take
my
efieem
and
repute
away
from
the Church of
God,they íhould
be willing
to
cry
out
having
apollatized
from
the
truth,
as
he
did, tread
upon
me, tread
upon me unfavory fait,
let
all
tread
upon
me,
it
is
juft
with
God that alt
his
fervants fhould
tread
upon
me;
And
I
befeech you confider of this you that
now
be-
gin to
make profeflion
of Religion ,
and have force work
of
God
in
your
hearts,
many
of
youthat
are
young
, there
is
fovt.
e
relifh of
favoury things
among you
,
when temptation
comes in,
then
confider
of
the dreadful condition of
one
that
Apeiflatizeth from
the
profeflìon of
Religion
,
for when
you
are
young
you think furely
you
flail
hold out there truths of
God
that
now
you
have,
here
you
are perfwaded that
they
fhalI.
never
get
out
of
your hearts
again
;
you
do
not
know,
you
do not know your
own
hearts.
Icome
now
to
the
words
as
they refpe& the
Miniflers,
the
general ílreain
almofl
of
all
interpreters
is
that
way,
they
are
the
fait of
the earth
, and
if
they
have loft
their
favor,&c,
that
is
thus, when
any
begin to
preach at
the firfl,their preach-
ing
is full
of
flrength,
they are mighty zealous
, mighty
for-
ward, but afterwards
the
temptations of the
world
when
they
come,
and
they
get
Livings
to feather their
nefls well
,
and
are
fettled
in
the world, then
they begin
to
grow
more
flack,
lode
and empty in
the
world,
their
preaching
is
more
flat
then it
was,
there
is
not
the
favorinefs in
it
as
formerly
there
was,
they
do
not
fpeak
to the
hearts
of men
as
formerly
,
yea
it
may
be
now having
met
with temptations, they are
grown
very frothy
, begin
to
mixe
other
things
of their
own
iriventi-
tnwith
it,
and are loth
to
fpeak
thofe
truths that
íhould
go
to
their