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Go'pet
cls,
emi
sion,
that
many people take
;
they draw
out the
thread of their
lives,
and fpend out
their
day
of
Salvation
in
trifling
with
God
;
they
pray that God
would
be
merciful to
them
in
forgiving
their
fin,
and
yet go
on
to
commit
fin
;
they
do
not
think,
what
a
flrong
in-
gagement
againflin
Praying
is
;
I
befeech
you
note
it,every
one
of
you that
pray
againft
any fin,
every
Prayer
thou makeft
for
pardon
of fin,is
a
mighty
ftrong
engagement
from
God
to
you to
take heed
of
fin
afterwards,
may
be
you
have
not thought
of
this
you fay;you
pray
every
morning,
confider what
you do;
if
you
have
any
care
of your
fouls,
you
will not
reft
rneerly
in
fuch
a
form
as
your Fathers
and
Mothers
have
taught
you;
but
if
you
have
any
care
of
your fouls,you
will
confider
in
Prayer
to
God,
&
fay,Lord
I
am
guilty
of
fuch
and fuch fins, fuch
fins
my
nature
is
moft prone
unto,
and
fuch
fins
I
have
lately committed
;
I
will humble
my foul
before
God
in
Prayer,
and
intreat
God
to forgive
me
;
'tis
not
Prayer
to mumble over
a
few
words,this
is
to prate
and
not to pray
:
but
when you folemnly
fet
your
felves
to
examine
your
own
hearts
what you
are guilty of, and
proteft
againft
your
fins
folemnly
in
the prefence
of God,
and
fay, Lord
this
and. this
particular
fm
I
am
guilty of
.,
Lord
I
was
drawn to
fuch and
fuch
fins
the
day before
in
fuch and
fuch
company, O
Lord
forgive
my fin,
and
forgive
me
thefe and
thefe
particular
fins
;
this
is
the way to
Peek
pardòn
of
fin
aright
:
Do
you do
fo
?
this
will
be
a
mighty
bond upon
your
hearts to think
thus
within your
felves
;
Lúrd,
What have
I
been
fitting
nmy_felf
folemnly
in
the
pref
nce
of
the
Almighty
to
confefc
nay
fins,
and
prayed him
to
forgive
them
;
what
care
have
I
need
to take
that
I
fall
not
into
the rame
fin
again
?
TI
tfiat-haft
come
this day,
and cunfeft
and
prayed ágaínft thy
fin,
dö not
fall
into
it
again;
youthat
are apt
to
breal
out info
pallion,when you
find
your
felves beg
n
to
wax
hot,if
you would
ut
take
fo
much
liberty
as
to
bethLk
your
felves,
that
you have been
praying
to
God
this
morning
to
forgive
fuch
a
Paffion
:.
it would
be
of
mighty
concernment
to
help
you from going
on
in
Paflion,,-
or
any
other
fin,
to confider
that
you_have been
praying
to
God
for
pardon
and fòrgivenefs
of
it
;
you that
do not confider
t:
s,
but
confefs
your
fins
in
the
morning,
.
and
then go
on again
to
commit
fin:
you
make
more
work for
the
next
time
:
you
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corn
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