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the Excellency
of'
the
Said.
thou,
fell
the
work
be
not
yec'done,
let
mee
know
it, let
met
how
it now, before
it
is
too'late; It
is
better
to
know
Aar
yet
the
work
is
to
begin, while
you
have
u
ne
to
work,
than
to
know
it
after
when
the
time
is
One
And
then,
bee
Willing
to
examine
your
hopes)
to lay
them
to
the
rule
of
the
Scripture;
and that
very narrowly
:
And
if
you
finde
yo r
hopes cannot. Rand with the
Word,
then
refoive thus
with
your-
f;lves,
the
work yet
ro
be
done,
the very laying of
the foundation
of
that great
work,
of
the
faving
of
my foul
,
it
is
to
begin
:
-
-=
Í
but
you
will fay,
God
forbid this,
we
have
not lived all
this
while,
to
begin to lay the work for,
the
faving
of ourfouls
now,
that
were an
ill
thing
indeed
:
-_-
O
I
would to
God
it
were
nor
fo
;
but
this very thought
that form
have
that
they
are nor
now
to
begin the
,
aying
of
the
foundation
in faving
their
fouls,
is
that that
dotti def}roy
them,
Whereas,
though
a
man
or woman have lived many
years,
yea
though
they
have
been Profeflours
of
Religion
,
yet
if
upon examination
they
can finde chat
the
faxing work
of,
God
is
not
wrought in
their
hearts, and
upon
that
can
conclude, Lord
it
is
to begin,
for
ought
I
know,
I
*Wing
be-
gin the
work again; and
better
it
is
to
begin twice,
than
be
damned once, therefore .whatfoever
bewomes
of mee
,
I
gill
begin again
;
this
Nere
a
good
fign
:
Suppofe you
th
uld begin again, and
it
may
bee
you
thought
too
ill of
ytïurfelves;,for
it
may.
bee
there
was fame
truth in
your
hopes, or hearts,
that
you
could
not fee,
yet
there
is
no
beat
dangëf
inthis,
-that
that
was
good will hold,
though you
do not
fee
it; it
is
the
fafeff
way
for
men
and
woiíren
there-
fore
to
bee
willing
to
begin
often,
yea and fometimes
it
is
the
bell and
the
readiefl courfe for people
that
have
loft
their evidences
for falvation,
and they can
fee no
clear evi-
dences out
of
Gods
Word
o
fettle
their hearts upon, for
the
great matter of
their falvation;
I
fay,
it
is
the
readief}
way
for,
them
to
do
as
if
they were
to
begin
again, rather than
0
.
fpend
time in
looking
òút
their old
e'vidences;
as
a
mane
perhaps
that
bath
loft
his
evidences may have
them renewed
With
lefs charge arid
colt than
he
can leek
them out, and
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