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1ìo
Go
Tel
son.
this
hash been
a
guard
unto
you,
if
thy
fin
break
in
upon thee
as
fully,
and
as
freely,
as
if
there were
no
guard
at
all
;
thy
condition
is
very
fad.
2.
Let
me
further
fPeakto
fisch
that
fn
after
the
pardoning
grace of
God
,
and
do
not
walk,anfwerable
to
that grace
that
war
let
forth
in
witneffing
the pardon
of
fn
;
'tis
a
thoaafand
to one
thou
wilt
lofe
thy evidence
;
'tis true,
it
is
irrevocable
in
Gods
heart,yet
thou
may'ft
carry
it
fo,
that by
thy
luofe
walk-
ing thou
may'lt
lofe
the
evidence
of
it
in
thy
own
foul ,
and
it
may
be
as
fad
with
thee
as
if
thou
wert
not
at
all
pardoned
;
we are
to know
that
when
an
Evidence
is
given
in
,
concern-
ing
pardon
of
fin,
every renewed
ad
of
fin
is a
blot to that
Evidence
:
A
man
that having
Evidences
of
Lands,
or
an
Eftate,
will keep
them
fair
;
but
if
he
fhould
fuffer
them
to
be
blot-
ted,
one
blot after
another,
perhaps fo
blotted
as
neither
he
nor
any one elfe
is
able
to read
them;
it may
colt
him
a
great
deal
of trouble
before
he
get them
renew'd
again
;
fo 'tis
with
a
poor creature that
bath got
fome
comfortable
Evidence
of
the
pardon
of
fin, but
giving way to temptation,
commits
a
fin, and
there
he gets
a
blot
;
and
then,
the
next temptation ,
coming poffibly
to
worldly
Mindednefs,
Pailion, Unbelief,
flightnefs
of
Spirit, Vanity,
Senfuality,
and
abufe
of
the
Creatures
;
by
often
yielding
to thefe, he
gets
more
and
re-
newed blots
;
fo
that if
his
Evidences
be
look
'd
into, they
will
be
found
fo full
of
blots,
that
no
marvel
in
a
time
of
temptation they cannot read
them
:
pofiibly
force
that
are
skilful
in
the way
of
God,
and
the
nature
of
the Covenant
of
grace,
may
pick
out
fomewhat
of
the meaning
of
them
;
but
thou
fain
fo
fouly from
God
that thy
Evidences are
fo
blotted
and
blur'd, that
in
thy
own apprehenfion
thou can'ft
fee
nothing,
but
that
thy condition
is
as
dangerous
as
ever
it
was
and
as
uncomfortable, thy
Evidences
are
fo blotted
that
thou
can'ft
not
read
them
thy felf,
and fo
haft no comfort
by them,
and
'tis to thee
as
if
thou had'[l
none
at
all
;
this
is
the duty
and
would
be
the
comfort
of
every
Chri-
f}ian
,
that
when
they
have
gotten
their
Evidences
;
that-
they
would keep them
fo
clear, that they might read
them
every
morning,
and
run
and
read
them,
and not
Hand
poring