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into
the
condition
of
the
afrfed,
rt
me
how
I
have abufed
thofé mercies
that
I
did
enjoy
:
how
.I
did
not
make
ufe
of
my
eflate
for
God
as I
might have done,
you who have
comfortable eflares now,
and you think
becaute
they
are your
Own
that
therefore
you may
do with
them
as
you
ft,but
if God
ihouldbv
route
accident cooìe
and rake
your
eflates
from you,
the
tiro
thing
that
your cou
ciences would
do,
would be
this,to
charge upon you the
abufe of-your
eflates':
And
then
fecondly
to
tell
yóu
that
you
did not
mike that
ufe of
your
eflates
for
the
honour
of
Gods
name,
as
you
might
have
done
:
$uppofe
GOd
should come upon
you
by
the adver-
Cary,
or fire,
or
any
other
way, and fweep
away
all in one
night,
do
not
you
think
that
your consciences
would
then
tell
you
:
ö
I
might
have
made
better
ufe
of it
for God.
then
I
:have
done
l'
It's
an
ordinary thing when
a
mercy
is
taken from one,for con-
Ccìence
to
accule
then for the
abufe of
that
mercy
that
he
did
enjoy_;
as
now, when
a
manburies
a
wife,
the
firft
thing that
confcience
-will
tell
one,
will
be;
0
I
have
not performed the
duty that
I
ought
to
my wife which
I
should have done,
and lo
for
any
mercy,
when the mercy
is
taken
away, confcience
then
bath
greater
liberty
to
charge one for
the
abufe
of
that mercy
then
fornierly:it had, and
fo
we fhould
put
our
felves
in
their
cafe,
and
put
confcience
to
it
and fay, fuppole
that
all
the
out=
ward comforts
which
I
doe enjoy to
this
world
were taken
away
from
me,could I then
have
a
cleeteconfcience,
and
could
I
be
able
to
fay ,
Lord thou
that
knowell
all
things kno
,veil
that
while
I
did
enjoy
my
eflate,
it
Was
my
care to
ferve
thee
will
ir,
and
to
iihprove
my
eflate
to
the
utterrnofl
for
the glo-
ry
of
thy
name
:
I
am
afraid
that
there
are
not
many
Which
are
deprived
of
their eflates
that
have
their
confciences
fo
free
in
excufing
of
then,
and to
I
feare
that there
are
not
many
Of
you
but
if
you would
out
your felves
into
their
conditions,your
con
fcience would
deal more
freely with
you
then
now
it
Both, and
that's
a
fecond thing that
confcience would
doe
if
you
were in
their
cale.
And
'
hent
ie
third
thing,
If
you
would
but put
your felves
into
their
condition it would be this, You would
!
horten
your
'outward
comforts, but
you
Wouldinlarge your
duties,
verily
L
ì
think