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cem
fsion.
three
men
fhould venture the
lives
of
a
thoufand
men
meer-
ly
to
fave
the lives
of
two
or three
,
were not
thefe
mens
lives
very
precious to him
?
fo
Jefus
Chrift
he
ventures the
hardning
of
the
hearts
of
many
for
the
comforting
of
a
few
;
therefore
it
Thews
your
comforts are precious
things
;
you
Ihould not
eafily
put them
off,
for
they
toff dear,
The
feventh Rule
in
applying
Evidences
is
this,
That
when
you
cannot
fee the
workof
faith
reaching
to
Afurance,yet
labour
to
put
forth
the
workof
faith
of
Adherence
;
there
may
be
much
of
the
workings of
the
faith
of adherence, where there
cannot
be
the faith
of
affurance
;
that
is
certain, there
may
be
true
faith adhering to
Chrift
for the
pardon
of fin,
where
the foul
bath
no
certain
affurance
of
it
:
Many
poor
creatures are
cry-
ing
out,
and
faying,
if
I
had faith
of
affurance,
and
a
full
perfwafion my
fins
were pardoned ,
I
could
be
comforted ;
but
becaufe
they
have
not attained to
a
full perfwafion and
affurance,
they think they
have no
grace at
all
but
there
maybe
faith
in
the pardon
of
fin,
where there
is
not
a
refleft
a&
of
the foul, whereby
I
come
to
know
it
bath
faith
,
and
that
its
fins
are
pardoned,
i
Th.
Chap.
2.
3.
he thews
there
that there
may
be
knowledge ,
and
yet
not
know
they do
know
;
Hereby
we
know
that
we
do
loow him,
if
we keep
his
Commandements
,
hereby we know that
we
do know him
:
now knowing
of Chrift,
and
knowing
that
we
do know
him,
is
not
all one
;
there
is
a
knowing,
and
a knowing that
we
do know
him
;
fo
there
is
a believing
and
a knowing
we
el)
be-
lieve
:
-
there
may
be
a
true
work
of
grace that
I
may know
Chrift,
and know
him to falvation,
and yet
not know that
I
do
know him,
that
is,
by
a
refeft
a&
of
faith,
a
knowing
that
I
do know him
;
fo
then
,
where
there
is
not a
faith
of
afharance
there
may
be a
faith
of
adherence
;
that
is,
when
the
foul
Ricks
to
Chrift,
and
can
give it felf
unto , and venture
it
felf
upon
Chrift
for pardon
of
fin,.
life and
;
that
is
faith
of
adherence
:
fuppde infeeking
my Evidences
(
many
of
them being taken
from the
effefts and fruits
of faith) I
can...
not
find
them,
and fo
cannot
put,
forth
a
refle& a&
of
the foul,
which
is
faith
of
affurance,
yet
I
ma, at
that
time have
a
faith
of
adherence
, thou inay'ft
feel
thy
heart
flick:
to
Chrift
,
thou
n
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