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Go
f
el
l?em
fsion.
pooring
and
beating
their
brains
and
hearts,
and
fret
them-
felves,
becaufe
they
cannot
find fuch and fuch
a
thing that
was
to them
an
Evidence
of
the pardon
of
their
fins
this is
through
their negleft
;
and
if
they had
been
careful
to
have kept
their
Evidences
clear
and plain
,
O
the
comfort
they might
have had
to
have
read
them
every morning
:
If
the Pollution
of
fin
recoil
back again, no marvel
the
fenfe
of
guilt
of
fin upon
thy
Confcience recoil
back again
;
if
God
have committed fuch a Jewel to thee
as
the
Evidence
of
pardon of fin,
and
thou makeft
no
better
ufe
of
it
,
'tis
juft
with
God
to
take
it
out
of
thy
hands,
and
keep it
in his
own
;
and
though
he
Thew
mercy
at lafl unto thee
,
yet thou
may'ft
not know
it
whilft thou
art
in this
world
;
its a
very
hard thing
to
recover it
again
:
thofe
that
have had
the
pardon
of
fin
feal'd unto them
,
have by
their
falling into
fin
afterwards ,
fo
darkned
and
loft
their
Evidences
that
they
could
never recover them
again
;
as
David
,
fee
how
he cries
out,
Create in
me
a
clean
heart, and
reftore
to me
the
joy
of
thy
falvation
;
David
faw all was
gone ,
and
that there
muff
be
a
new
Creation
and
Reftoration
;
Reftore
to me
the
by
of
thy
f
alvation
;
O
the
joy
that
once
I
had,
and now have
loft
;
O
Lord that
I
may
have it once again
:
David
had
a
little
fenfual
pleafure for
a
while , but he paid
dear for it
,
he
loft
the joy
of
Gods
falvation
:
What
think you
David
would
have given
to
have
got
it again
?
for ought we
know,
he never
had it
fo
fully
as
before
:
Thole
that
have
had
force comfortable Evidence
of
pardoning grace
,
and
after-
wards through their
negligence, loofnefs, and
vanity,
have
loft it,
may never come
to
enjoy the comfort
of
it again
as
for-
merly they
did
;
and
therefore
when
Peter
had finned againft
his
Mauer
;
mark,
when
Chrift
came
to
Peter,
fays
he, Lovett
thou
me
?
he
anfwered,
Lord
thou knoweft 1
love
thee
;
Chrift
puts
it to
him again
;
Lovett
thou
me
?
he would not take his
firft
anfwer,
but puts it
to him the fecond
and
third time,
Lovett
thou
me
?
as
if
Chrift
had
faid
to
Peter,
look
to
your
felf,
it
is
not any prefent fudden
work that
can
reco-
ver your
Evidences
again
;
you
that
have finned
and
darkned
your
Evidences
,
had need
to
put this
Queftion
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