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Golpel
Rem
fsiorz:
children
in
times
of thong
temptations ,
they
are not
able
to
read
their
Evidences
as
Children
when
their eyes are
blear 'd
and
blinded,
give them the Book
and
they
cannot
read
thereon
fo
when
your
hearts
are under
great
tempta-
tions
and afflif}
ions,
this
is
not
a
time
of
trial
;
then
by
the
way,,
ifit
be
not
for
a
godly
man, much
lefs
for
a
wicked
man
:
many wicked men
put it off to
the
day
of
death
and
never
fo
much as
put themfelves to
trial, till horrour
of
Con-
fcience
or
fears
of
death put them
upon it
;
it
is
an ill
time
for
Gods
people to
try
themfelves then
:
Suppofe
you would
weigh
Gold,
you
will
not do it
in
a
form
or
wind
;
the
trial
of
our
eftate
is
like the
weighing of
gold
;
for
we
are
to
weigh
our
felves
by
the
balance
of
the
SanEZuary,
that
we may
know
whether
we (hall
be weight
when
God
comes
to
weigh
us
;
for
every foul
muff
be
weighed,and
wo
be
to thofe to whom
God
fhall fay
as
he did
to
Belfhaz,zar,
when the
hand
-
writing
appeared
upon
the wall,
it
wau
fo
terrible
to
him,
that
his
knees
mote
one
againfl
another
;
But what
was
that
?
Thou
art
weigh.,
e
d
in
the
balance,
and
art
found
too
light
:
fuch
a
hand
will
many
find
one day
:
Poor
foul
that thoughteff thy felf
in
a
good
condition,
and
that
thy
fins
were pardoned
;
thou
art
weighed
in
the
balance, and
art
found
too light
;
therefore
it
concerns you
now to weigh
your
felves
in
the
balance
of
the
Sanctuary
:
when
you
weigh
gold,
you
muft
not hold
the
Scales
in
the
mid'ft
of
wind,
forms,
and tempeft
that
hurries
the
balance
up
and down
;
but
it
muft
be
in
fuch
a
place that you may
hold
them Readily that
nothing
may
fir
them
;
for
in
the wind the
lighter
may
be
blown
down,
and
the
heavieft
uppermoft
;
but
if
you hold them
in a
fill
place you may
try
to
a
grain
fo
the
Soul
of
man
is
like
the
Scales in
the wind,
in
a
time
of
temptation thou wilt have
enough
to
come
in
to turn the
balance,
lift it
up,
and
make
thee
feem
too light
;
and
therefore
when
you would weigh
your
condition, do
it
when
your
hearts are
compofed
,
and
you
are
your
felves
when
your hearts
are
quiet,
then
lay
your
fouls
to the balance
:
many
weigh
their
hearts
in
a
time
when trouble and affliction
is
upon
their
fpirits,
but
they
cannot do
it
,
all
they
do
then
is
nothing
;
there are
but
two
things
,