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Confderations
to
fupport
the hearts of
thole
that
hunger
thou haft
but
alittle
thou
!halt
not
know
it
fo
fully,and
fo
have
the,affurance in thy confcience;
but
it
is as
fure with
God,
Thou
arc
as
certainly translated
from
death
to life,
a
if
thou
h
acgl
the
greatefi degrees of
all.
Secondly,
Where there
are
true
delres,
there
the
Lord
looks upon
thyir_aperfeaions, not
as
thine,buc as
fin
that dwet-
loth
in
the
e
;
That's it
the
Ai-oftle
faith,'7
is
no
longer
1, when
It
eapreûe
mighty delires after
Grace,
and found corruptions
ftrong,
his
no
to
<ge'r
1, but
fin
that
dwelleth in me;
So.I
fay
to
the
foul
that
is
arong
in
the
defirés
of
it
after grace,
though
there
be
many
imperfections
remaining, the Lord
Both
not
now look upon thy
imperfections
fo
much
thine,
as fin
in
thee,
,there
is a
twofold
felfe
as
it were, there's
a
fell
corrupt,
and
a
felfe Grace
;
Iris
not
I, but
fm,
the Lord
charges
not the re-
mainers
of
fin
in
the
foul
that
hath thefe
fincere
delires
after
the
work of his-Grace,:
Thirdly,
Further,
So long
as
thy corruptions are
in
thee,
and be thy iicknefíe (obferve
it,
for
fodoth
the
foul
that
is
in
this
cafe, find
the
remaining corruptions
that
arse
in
it
Lobe.
its
fickneflé)
fo
long
as
thou findeft
the
want of this righteoufnefs
to
be thy ficknelle,know
that
it
makes
thy
foul
to be,
an
object
ofGods
pitty
and compatfion,and
not
an
object
of
Gods
wrath
'and
hatred:Here's the
difference between the
remaining
part
offin that
is
in
the Saints,
and
the
corruptions
in
the ungodly:
The
fin
that
is.
in
ungodlymen
and
women makes
their
foules
to
be the
objet
pfGods
wrath and
hatred, for
fo
the
Scrip-
ture faith, The Lord
hates the
'workers
of iniquity,
but.
the
Saints
that
have
any
beginnings of
Grace,
though
there be
much unrighteoufneffe
fl
ii
i
s
the
foule,,
this unrighteoufneflé
being
thy
fickneffe,
it
makes
thy
foule
now not
an
objet
of
Gods
wrath,
but
an obje&
of
his pitty
and compaffión:' As
your children,
when
they are
lick and
weake, do not
you
love
them
as
well
as
when
they
are at
the
flrongeft
and
molt
heal-
thy, I
appeale
to
any
tender mother,
file
loves
the
child when
-
it
is
in
health, and
can
goe up
a#nd
çlówne, and
fo can play
with
it,,but
When
the
child
is
lick,
loth
not her
Bowels
yearn
to-
wards
the
child
then,
when
its
.fack
and
can do
nothing for
the
mother