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the Excelle»cy
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intends
to fave, hee thews
unto them what
this
falvation is;
isee
fhews
them from
what
it
is they
are to
bee
faved,
that
fo
they
may
not
run
away vvith
(the
meer word (Salvation)
and
caving
of fouls)
now
God
reveals this
in
his
Word,
and
when hee
intends
to
fave
a
foul, hee
Both by his
Spirit
air
it
up
to
JOyn
with the
Word
of God,
and work thofe
things
upon
its felf,
fo
as
to
bee
made fenfible of
them.
As
thus,
the
foul
being folicitous
how
it
lhould
come
to
bee
faved,
it
fearches the
Scripture, and
there
it
findes
how
wee
are
by
nature the
children of
wrath;
there
it
findes
that
God
had made man
according
to
his
own
Image
at
firff
,
but
man
hath finned
againff
God
, and broken
the covenant
upon
which
his
eternal
flare did
depend,
and
in the
fin
of
the
firff
man all men
have
finned, and are deprived of the
glory of
God,
and
now
are
conceived
in
fìn, and
brought
forth
in iniquity,
fo
that there
is
a moff
dreadful
breach
be-
tweén
God and
the
foul, and
that
man
by
nature
is
become.
an enemy to the Infinite
God
:
That
now hee
bath
the
feeds of all
kind
of fin
in
him,
and that all
his
life,
while
hee continues in
his
natural
efface
here,
is
nothing elfe but
a
fighting againff
God,
a
flying
in
the very
face
of God
:
Hee
findes
that
by
fin
bee
is
brought
under
a
moil
dreadful
curie,
the curfe
of the Law, and
that
hee
is
bound
over by
the
bonds of
the Law,
even to death,
to
eternal death,
as
the
`wages
of fin; thefe things
the
foul findes
in
Scripture
;
now
if
thou wouldeft
bee
faved, when thou
finder+
God
re-
vealing
fuch
things, labour
thorowly
to
convince
thy
foul
of
the
truth
of
them; and
are
thefe things
fo
indeed
?
is
this
my
condition
?
am
I
thus and thus
naturally
?
Oh
what
good then will it
do to
mee to
have all the
world, and bee
in
fuch
a
condition
as
this
is
?
Oh
my
foul
?
when
wert thou
fenfible of
this
condition?
doff
thou
walk
as
it
becomes
one
that
is
fenfible
of
fuch
a
loft
etfate
as
this
is
?
Oh
!
la-
bour
to
drink
in
there
truth.,
and
to
work
them
upon
thy
heart, and
cry
to
God to
fee
them
home
upon thy fpirit
to
make thy foul
thorowly fenfible of
them,
as
hee
ufes
to
make
thofe whom
hee
bath
a
purpofe
to lave. Here's the
firif
thing.
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