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Anfiwr
to
the idea,
I
"doe
-what
I
can.
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how
fweetly
might
you
fleep
and lye down
to the
evening
when
you
have
kept
fuch
a
watch over your own
hearts And
though. you have many
weakneifes and faylings you
might
comfort your
Pelves
in
this, that
your
hearts
have been
right.;
Many
never mind God
at
all
in
their lives,
now
do
you
what
you
can
when
you
never
think
of
God,
and
therefore they
yate
this
of
and
fay,
what
can
we
do without
the
grace of
God?
--
But
know
for this,
that
God
doth give
thee
force common
grace,
which
would enable
thee
to do more then
thou.
do
ea,
but
thou
dog
nor
put
förth
that ftrength
which you
might
do
by
the
power of'common grace
:
Take
heed
of this plea,
lea
God take
you
at advantage.
Secondly,
Suppofe
God f
tóuld take you
at
your
word,
at
this.
advantage,
and fay,
finner,
dare
you
venter
your
eternal(
efface
upon
this
plea,
you
fay
you
do
what you can,
and
you
know
-iothing
more
but that
you
would
doe,
did
you know
it,
be
it
io,
you shall
be
tryed
by
this plea,
that
you
do
what
you
can,
if
I
arh-not able
to
convince you,
you
might doe
snore,
then
I
will
yeeld
to
you
that
you have
done
what
you
can,
but
if
you
have
nor done what
you
can,
you Thal!
mifcarry,
your
eternal!
eaates
!hall
becaff
upon
this plea
:
Dare
you
amid to
fuch
a
plea
as
this
in
time
of
fickneffe
?
You finde
you
could
have
done more then
you
have
done,
and
you
cry
our,
I might
have
done more
then
I
have
done,
h
might have
had more communionwith Go-i,
more
acquaintance with
the
Saints
Now that
which
a
mans
confcience
in
fickneife
tells
him,
he might have
done
in
health, that
hemay do,
for
fick-
neffe
cloth-not
infufe any
power
into
man
to
act, but
it airs
up
mens parts,
and convinces
them
what
they were
able
to
doe:
when
tren
conic
to
lick
and
dying
beds, then
they
fee
they
might
have
done more for
God,
and
been more
holy
then
they
were
in
the time of their
healths.
Thirdly,
I+or
the
convincing
of
thee, that
thou
dog
not
do
what thou
cana,
what
doeft thou think that
a
damned
four
in
hell
would doe
if
God
fhould bid
him goe and imp
ov,e
his
timed
and
according
to
it's improvement of
fuch
a
faipend
of
,,time,
it
should
eithergo
to
hell
againe.-or
come,
to
heaven,
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