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kmifsion.
of
finning, to do
nothing
elfe
but increafe their
fins
;
but
fuch men
and
women
who
being
convinc'd
of
fin,
and
if
they
were
perfwaded that
God
would never pardon
that
fin,
they
would
find
knots enough
to
flop
them from the commifüon
of
it
:
but becaufe
they
have
fore
hopes
that God
will
par-
don, therefore
on
that very ground they venture
on
fin
;
'tis
true,
it
is
an offence,
but
God
is a
merciful
Gad
,
he
will
forgive
though
it be
an evil
:
there
is
more
evil and
mifchief
in
this than thou can'ft imagin
;
What,
art
thou convinc'd
of
fin, and
wilt
thou venture
on fin
meerly
on this
ground
,
becaufe
thou
hopeft that
God
will pardon
thee
?
I
may fay
unto thee
as
Peter
unto
Simon
Magus,Ac%.8.
22. Pray,O
pray
to
God,that
if
it
be
poßible,
this
thought
of
thy heart
may
be
jar
-
given
thee
;
for
this
thought
of
thy heart bath
fo
much
ma-
lignity
in
it,
and
is
fo
great
a
provocation againft
God
as
pofiible
can be
imagined
(
except
the
fin
againft the
Holy
Ghofl,)
for
any
man
or
woman
to
venture
on
any
fin in
hopes
ofpardon
:
fore
will fay,
What
need
we
be
fo
flri&
,
and trouble
our
felves fo
much?
God
is
merciful, and
therefore
they think upon
that ground
;
they
need not
be
fo
flri6t
;
this
is a
horrible
degree
of
turning
the
grace
of
God
into
watonnefs,
Jude
4.
the
Apoflle
fpeaks
of
fuch
there,
that
profeft they
did believe
in
Chrif}
;
mark what
he fays
of
them, There
are
certain
men
crept
in
unawares
,
-
--
ungodly
men
turning
the
grace
of
God
into wantonnefs,
and
denying
the
only
Lord
God,and
our
Lord
7efus
Chrif;
'tis
a
moll
dread;
ful
place,
if
there
be
any one
in
the
Congregation that
have
ever
had the
glorious light
of
the
Gofpel
revealed
to
them,
that
can
reafon
thus
?
I
do
fuch and fuch
things, yet
God
is merciful
;
O
that
God
would convince
thee
of
this
evil
,
give
me leave
to
open
it unto
you,
how
men creep in
;
they
were
Chriftians,and were come into the
Church;
but how
?
they
crept
in
cunningly
;
the
Saints
of
God
were not aware
of
them, they crept
in
amongft them.
Here
by
the
way, we
may
take notice,
that
in a
Church
there ought to
be
none
admitted Members,
but fuch
as
there may
be
fore
teflimonyy
of
godlinefs in
them;
for
if
any
be
ungodly
they are
fuck'
4s
creep
in unawares
the
Church"
of
God
-
Mould
keep
them