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the
morehis.heart is
wrought upon by
the
Scripture, and
daim
`íy
grows
to
bee liker and
liker
to
the
Scripture
,
to
come nearer
and nearer
to
what
is
required in
the
Scripture;
but
now
when a gracious
heart
doth
refit
upon
Scripture
,
it
findes
that daily
it
-doth
grow
nearer and nearer
to
the
Scriptures
and that
works
daily
more
and
more upon
it; and
indeed
this is
the
way
to
grow
in
fanftification,
and
to
Make
our hearts like
to
the
Scriptures.
Fall
upon feveral
places, and
let
your fouls
ref}
upon
than
for eternity,
and
fo
you
will finde
your
hearts
to
grow
more and more
like
to
thofe Scriptures, and
the
power
of
thofe
Scriptures
will
appear
more and
more
in
your hearts and
converfations.
This
is
the
way
of
the
Saints
that have
hopes
to
bee
`raved.
Secondly,Again,thofe hopes
that
are
to
be
rafed,are
hopes
that are not
wrought
in
the foul
by
the
power
of
the Holy
Ghoft
;
in the forenamed
Chapter,
The
God
of
hope
fill
you
ivith
all
.ioy
and
peace in 'lreleeving,
that
you
may
abound
in
hope
through
the
paver
of
the Holy Ghof
.
That
hope
that
is
right
for falvation,
is
fuch
a
hope as
is
wrought through the power
of
the
Holy
Ghófl
i
Now then,
that
hope
that
is
in
men and
Women, which
is
born
with them and hath
lived
with
'them
all their
dales,
that
fprings from
the
root of
nature,
for fo
that
that
is
born with
us,
and
grows
up
with us
all
the
daies
of our
lives,
I
fay,
it
fprings from a
root
of
na-
ture,
and
fo
the
hopes
of
mot+
people ,
they
are
no
other
but
fuch
as
fprings from
a
root of
nature;
come
from one
to
another,
and
ask
them, do
you
think
to
bee
faved
?
I.,
I
hope fo;
how
long have
you
hoped
fo
?
ever
fince
I
can
remember, I
thank God;
I,
I
thought
fo;
it
is
a
hope
that
fprings
oat ofthe
root
of
nature,
and
therefore you have
hid
it
alwaies, whereas
the
true
hope
'of
the
godly
for
falvatiòn,
it
i$
a
hope
svro+
t
in their hearts
by
the
Al-
mighty power
of
file
Holy.
Ghof
.
And
I
appeal
to
you
nrxv,
what Almighty power
of
the
Holy Ghoft have you
felt
in
your hearts
to
ratfe
up
thofe
hopes
that
you
have
in
you?
--
-'For
rtainty
the grace
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