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Confsderations
to
quicken our appetites
after
righteoufneffe.
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mercy
inthis
dangerous
time whereinwe1ive.t6
refill
tempta-
tions,
a weak fickty
plan
or woman,
they had need
of
a
Raffe,
they are
ready
to
(tumble at
every Rone,
and
fo
a
weak
chrifti-
an
is
ready
to
Rumble
at every offence, but
a
man
that
bath
got
Rrength, he
can go
Readily,
and
fo
flrong chriflians
they are
able
to
do
ir,
and
therefore
you
find
that
Saint
Peter
when
he
would give
a
rule
how
men lhould
come
to
be fleadfaft,
in
the
2
Epift.
ch.
3.
17,
14.
he faith,
Beloved,
feeing
ye know
theft.
things
before, beware left
ye alfo,
being led
away
with tk
c
erreur
of
the
wicked, .fall
fromyour
own
Read
faftneff
e;
But ;row
ingra-e;
&c.
As
if the
Chriftian fhould
fay, how
flióùld
we
take heët
that
we fall
not
from our
fledfaflneffe,notwithflanding
the
ma
ny
errours
there
are in
the times wherein
we
live,
faitn ne,grow
ingrate
:
there
is
in -thefe
dayes,
a
deluge
of
errours
in
the
world,
and they catch young
ones,
weak
people,
and
women
and
fo
they
come
to
fall
fro=
their
own
Redfafneffe, but the
way
to
prevent this,
is
to
grów
in
grace, hunger after
more,
keep
your appetites.
after more,
and
let
your prayers and your
endeavours be after increafe
of rightebui'nefs,
that
fo
you may
keep
your Redfaflnefs.
Seventhly,
By
the
increafe of grace,
you
will
be able
to
have
a
more abundant
enterance into Heaven
when
you
dye
;
you
will dye with
more peace,
and have
an
abundant
entrance
into the
Kingdome
of
our
Lord
and
Saviour
Jefus
Chrill,
it's
.
not
by having
a
little
grace, though
you
may
get.)
He;
ven,yet
you cannot
have that
abundant
entrance into Heaven,
as
in
2
Pet.
1.
5.
And
betides
this,giving
ail
diligence,add
to
your
fabth
vertate,
and
to
virtue
knowledge,
and
to
knowledgetemperance,and
to
temperance patience, and
to
patiencegodlineffe,
and
to
godlinefe
brotherly
k
ndne
f
f
e,
and
to
brotherly k
ndne
f
f
e
charity,
for
if
theft
things
be
in
you
and
abound,they makeyou
that
ye (hall
neither
he
barren
nor
unfruitful)
in
the
knowledge
of
our
Lord 'eft& Chrift;
Wherefore
(
faith he in
the
toverfe)
the
rather
brethren
give
diligence
torn*,
your
calling and
clef
t
ion
fure
;
for
i
f
you
do
theft
things,
ye
fhall never
fall
;
for
fo
an entrance
fhall
be
mini
fired
to
you
abundantly,
into
the
everlaft'ng
Kingdome
of
our
Lord and
Saviour
3.6s
Chr,&The
Apoftle would
have
its
add
one
grace
to