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Rpn
fsiorz.
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aiwayes lye down
drooping,
but ftand
upon their
feet
;
But
together with
our fpeaking,
God
muff fpeak and con-
vey his
fpirit
eo
the foul,before
it
is
able
to
ftand up.
Left.
Well,
but
what
would
you
have
-yes
to
do ?
Anfw.
Thefe are
the
things
I
would
have
you do.
Firft, /would
have
you
turn
ydúr
fears
of
prefuming,into
fears
of dijhonouring
the
grace
of
God.
I
would
have
you
be
as
fear-
ful
that Gods
grace fhould
be
difhonoured
by
unbelief,
as
now you are fearful left you
fhould prefume
upon
Gods
grace
;
thofe
that are
fccure, they fear not left
they
fhould
prefume
;
but thofe
whole
confciences
are
awakened
, their
great
fear
is
left
they
fhould prefume upon
Gods
grace , and
difhonour
it by
prefumption
;
if
thou
feare&
thou fhouldit
difhonour the grace
of God
by
prefumption, why
fhouldfi
thou not
fear
left
thou
fhouldit
difhonour
it
by
unbelief
,
as
well
as
by
prefumption
?
certainly
the
ftrength
of
this
temp-
tation
is
from the
Devil.
1 hofe
that
have
their
confciences
troubled
for
fin,
he
labours
to
keep
them from venturing
on the
grace of
God,
left
they fhould prefume
;
but
the
way
to
cut
the Sinews
of
this
temptation,
is
to
tear
rather
left
thou
fhouldft
unbelief
the
as
grace
but
God
by
unbelief many
look not
at
thy
unbelief,
as
much
as
by thofe
that
do prefume.
Secondly, The
thing
I
would
have
you
to
do, you
that
are un-
.der the
check,ings
of
confcience
for
fin,and
full
of
doubts
that
God will
not
pardon, and
you
cannot
be
perfwaded
your
fins
are
pardonable,
labour
to
fet
the
greatnefs of
the
pardoning
grace
of
God
in
the
fulnefs of
it,
to
the
utmofLi
you
can,before
the
eye
of
your fouls.
That
it
may
be
before you
.,
though you cannot
reach to it; yet
fet
it
before you
;
you do not know what
an effi-
cacy
the pardoning
grace
of God hath,
by being prefented
be-
fore
your
fouls,
and
kept
there
;
no
marvel
you
find
not
the
power
of
it,
when
as
é
uesstmuch
tin
before
it
before
your
ficacy
of
Gods
grace
ly
The
Braf
rpent,
if
they
!ook;d
not
to
it,it
would
ne-
ver
heal;
So
tho
pardoning grace
of God,
be in
books
and
Sermons
yet
efs
it be
before
your
eyes
,
and
you
-fis
and fatten
the
eye
of your
fouls-upon
it
;
it
will never
oral
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