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Go
iel
Bern
jsiort.
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33
come
at
laft, it
will
recompencè
thee
for
all
thy waitings
and
pains.
Sixthly,
Be
willing
to
catch
hold
of
any
beginnings
of
Gods
difcoverings
of himfof,
it
it
be
but
a
little gltrnpfe make much
of
it,
and
bless
God for
it
:
Many
in
'their
trouble
leek
to
God
for pardon
;
but
they
are always complaining,
either
to
their
Neighbours
or
themfelves
;
but
feldom
exprefs them-
(elves
in
Thankfgivings
:
Now,
you
fhould
obf;rve what
God
bath granted, what
beginnings and glimpfe
of his
grace
appear
;
look and
fee
if there
be
not
a little
cloe
d,
the
bignefs
of
a
mans,
hand,
it
may breed
a
fhower,
a
fhower
of
grace
may
come
after
it
;
but
take-
notice
of
it,
when
it
is
but
the
bignefs
of
a
mans hand
:
it -is
a
great
evil in fuch
as
are under
trouble
of
Confcience,
becaufe
they
find
not
full
Aflurancc
prefently, they
think
they
receive
nothing
at
all
:
Weil,
wait upon
God
under
tilde
directions,
and
as
you (hall
not
be fo
guilty
of diíhonouring the
pardoning
mercy
of
God
;
fo
'twill
be
a
means
to bring great
good unto
your
foule.
We
have now
done with the
feveral
ways
of
difhonouring
the pardoning grace
of
God
;
and
becaufe
God
is
very jea-
lous
of
this,
and
takes
it
exceeding
ill
;
I
have
been
the
larger
in
it
;
now
I
am
to
fhew the
evil of
it.
Of
the
Evil
of
diflsonouring the
Pardoning
Grace
of
God:
}lift,
There
is
this
evil
in
it;
becatsfe
it
is
a
finning
again)
mercy,which
God accounts
his
glory
;
a
man takes it
exceed'=
ing
ill,
if
be
be
wronged
in
his
Ci
oods,
or
good Name
,
or
in
any thing
he
apprehends
an,
excellency
in
;
and
(mark
it
The
greater
excellency
a
man apprehends
in
any
thing,the
grea-
ter evil
he
accounts the wrong
that
is
done
to
him
in
that
thing
:
As a
covetous man,
if
you
wrong
him
in his
Elate,
he
prefent
-,
ly
as a
mad man
cannot bear
it,
becaufe
you
wrong him of
that
which
he
counts
his
greateft excellency;
fo
a
Scholar,
a
.man'
of
parts will
rather you wrong
him
in
any
thing than
ac-
count
of
him
as a
Dunce
,
becaufe
he accounts
his
parts
and'
learning
his`greatehl excellency, therefore
he
would
not
be.
wronged
in
that
:
fo
you
that are
Marriners,
and
have
skill'
S.
3
ire