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f
el
Xemqsion,
thou
may
'ft
venture
thy
foul
on.
Chrift
;
that
faith will
fave
thee,
though
you have
nota
faith
of
affurance; that
is,
though
you cannot
find fuch Evidences
whereby
you
may
draw
up
fuch
a
conclufion,
or
make
up
filch
a
judgment
that you are
pardoned
,
yet
if
you
have
a
faith
of
adherence,
that
you
can
flick to
Chrift,
and
venture your
fouls on him
for
life
and
Salvation
and
all
that
is
good
;
that
faith will
fave
you
;
and
therefore
upon
examination
of
your
Evidences when you
cannot get
up
to
fuch
acf
s
of
faith
as
aßùrance
is,
live
then
by a faith
of
adherence
,
flick
to
Chrift,
fay, here
I
will
refolve to
live
and
dye, venture
of
the
grace
o
n
God
in
Chrift
Now
for
the foul to do
this,
it
is
a
mighty
work
of
faith
;
for
if
you
can
venture
your
fouls
on
Chrift
,
you
will
venture
your
Eftates
on
Chrift
your
Names
on
Chrifl,
and
ail
that
you
have
on
Chrift
;
and
therefore remember, if
you
have
not
a
faith ofaffurance,
then venture
your
felves
on
Chrift
by
a
faith
of
adherence,
and
comfort will
come
in
that
way,
Eighthly,
If
at
any time you
feel
comforts
from
Ev'dencr$
fow
in
upon
your
fouls,and that
you
are
able
to
apply
the
com-
fcrts
to
yourfelves,
that
the
Lord
bath
1
oken
to
you
by
fnch"
and
fuch
figns
of
a
pardoned
(inner,
tale
heedyou
do
not
refi
much
upon
Evidences
;
but then at
that
very
time, think with
your
felves, thoughnow
T
have
comforts,
I
may
1
ofe
them and
God
may
cal)
me
to another
condition
;
God
never
granted
thefe
helps unto
me
for
my
Saviours
that
I
fhould reft
upon
them,
they
are but bladders to help
me
to
fwim,
and
God
.may
.
take away thefe
,
and
call me
to
live upon the
meer
aftings
of
faith
, and
not at
all
on fenfe
,
that's certain
he
may do
ir,
for
when
we
bring
thefe Signs and Evidences
of
grace ,
as
they
come from faith ,
and
are
effec
s
and
fruits of
it, they
are
but
as
bladders to
help young
fwimmers
that
cannot fwim
with-
cut
them,
and
learn them to fwim
;
but
thole that
have got.
the
Art,
though the
bladders
be
taken
away, they
can fwim
;
but take them away from the
others,
and
they
will
fink
;
fo
that
thefe
Evidences are
for
young and
weak
Chriftians that
cannot
live on
primary
acts
of
faith ,
which
a
ftrong
Chriftian
can
do
,
when
all
other things are
taken
away
;
and therefz.
when
we
feel
the
comfort
of
any figns depend
not on
.,this
the
.