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Goff
el
Xenia' sion.
drof
ie
in
their
fpirits
than before
;
It
may
be
for
the time
wherein they were
feeking this
grace
of God,
they
were
ftric`f in
their
converfation,
in
their
ways confcientious
;
and in
every thing walk'd
clofe
with
God,
durft
not
for their
lives
omit
a
known duty attended
on
the
Word
with
a
great
deal
of
patience,
their
harts
clofed
with ir,
and
it
was
as
meat
and
drink
to them
;
and
in
their converfation they
were
very
fruitful
in
the
places
where they
lived
:
But now
having
had
force
comfortable
affurance
of
Gods mercy
par-
doning them, after
this
they
are
grown
flight,
vain,
loofe,and
dead
-
hearted
;
this
is a
very grievous
evil
where
ever
it
may
be
charged
:
It
is
a
very great
evil
for
any to
abufe
Gods
general Bounty, Patience,
and
Long-
fufferance,and the good
we receive
from
God
in
the
ufe
of
the creature
;
but
far worfe
to
abufe
the grace of God
in
Chrift,
manifefted
in
pardoning
mercy
:
I
(hall
thew
this
to
be
a
great
evil, and (hall
labour
to
convince
you
of
ir.
i.
Confider
and
call
to
remembrance
what
the
dayes
of
old
were
?
How
in
former
times it was
with
you,
when you
were
feeking the pardoning grace
of God
?
then you
thought
if
ever
God
come
into
my
foul,andgive
me
any affurance
of
pardon
of
fn,
How
infinitely
Jhould
my
foul
be
ingaged
to
biefs God,
and
how
Pall
I
for
ever
be
bound
to
give
up
my
felf,
foul and
body
what
1
am,
and
what
I
can
do
to
live
to
the
praife
of
the
grace
of
God
;
if
God
come
into
my
foul and
pardon
this
fin
of
mine, the
guilt
whereof
lies
fo
heavy
upon my
fpirit
;
I
appeal unto
your
own
Confciences,
Did
not
you think
in
your
own
thoughts, that it
was impoflïble
that
ever
you
Mould
come
to
live
as
you do
?
certainly if the thoughts
of
many people
might
this
day ap-
pear, they
cannot
but
fay,Time
was (when
I
was
feeking
af-
ter
the mercy
of
God,
to
pardon
my
fin
that
lay
upon my
Confci-
ence)
I
thought
with
my
f
if
thus
;
he is
a
bleffed
man indeed
that
has
affisrance
of
this,
and
if
ever
Ihad
peace
fpoken
to my
foul,
I
thought
my
life
would
have
been
fuch,
that
(in
my
ap-
prehenfion)
I
thought
it
was
impóf
ble
that
I
fhould have
grown
to
this dulnefs,deadnefs,
flightnefs,
and
vanity, that
now
I
fee
I
am
:
then
now
as
Paul
Paid
to the
Galatians,
Where
¡s.
the
bleffedncfs you
fake of,
time was you laid
the
pardoning
mere