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8
Go
fpel
Remfsiön.
Covenant
of
works
and
the Covenant
of
grace,
or
the
blef-
fings
of
this
Covenant
;
and
that
this
is
the
Covenant
that
we
muff depend
upon, notwithftanding
our
weakneffes
:
And
now
Ì
am fpeaking
of
this Covenant, that
weaknefs
may
Rand
with the Covenant
of
grace, many that
have carnal
hearts
may
be
ready
to
abufe
ir;
take notice how
dear
the
comforts
of
your
fouls
coft
God,
and
God
will
have
his
Mi-
nifters to
comfort you, though
the
revealing
of
fuch
things
will
indanger many
a
mans foul
:
God
is
content
to hazard
the damnation
of
other
men
to
comfort
you
;
for
certainly
thofe things that
we fpeak
for your
comfort will
be
the
damnation
of
many others
:
Think
thus,
O Lord
mull the
comforts
of
my
foul
coil
fo
dear
,
and
that for
my
comfort
many
fouls
are hazarded , who
by taking occafion
to
fin
,
abufe
that grace
that
is
reached forth to me,
and
fo
are like
eternally to perifh
?
O
then, what
need
had
I
to make
good
ufe
of
this grace that
comes
to me
with the
hazard
of
the
fouls
of
fo many
others
?
If
a
man
Mould
bring
fome
pre-
cious Balfom to
apply
to
a
wound,
and
tell
him
there
is
not
one
drop
of
it
but coft a
thoufand pound at
leaft,
would
not
this
be
highly prized
?
Now,
when we come
and
Phew
you
any thing that may comfort
your
hearts
and fatisfie
your
fouls
,
we muff reveal fuch
things, that
not only coil
much
but
the leaft dram
of
Gofpel-comforts coil
that
which
was
of
infinite
worth,
and
'ris valuable
two
ways
:
firít, every
drop
of
the
Balfom
of the Gofpel coil
the blood
of
thrift
;
but
befides
this, the very revealing
of
it
mufl colt
the damnation
of
many
fools , and
yet
God
is
content to
ven-
ture that,
that
you
may
be
comforted
:
We
in
the
Name of
God
come and
preach the grace
of
the
Gofpel,
and we
think
many
will
be
hardned by
it,
and
grow
more
fecure
,
and
abufe
Gods
mercy
;
but then we
fatisfie
our
felves
with
this,
th
t
the comforting
of
any broken
troubled
foul
is
fo
pre-
cious
in
the
eyes
of
Jefus
Chrift
,
that
he
is
content to ven-
ture
the
hardning
of
many
other
fouls
;
if
they
will he
hard
-
ned let them
be
hardned ,
Chrift
it
content to venture
it
;
and
hereby
we
fee
how
precious
thefe
comforts are
there-
fore
you had need
to prize
them
, and
not
call
them
off
:
as
fuppofe
a
Captain
for
the
laving
of
the
lives
of
two
or
three