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R
Goipel
(kpniision,
203
CHAP.
XIX.
Of
Exhortation
to
feek
after
Pardon
of Sin,
with
Cautions
and
Rules, how,
and
what
we
are
to do.
IAsn
now come to
a
ufe
of
Exhortation,
and
it concerns
us
all, either thole that are not pardoned ,
or
thofe
that
have affurance
of
the
pardon
of their
fins
;
for
there
is
none
that
have
afl'urance but
may make ufe
of
it
:
Chrift
taught
his Difciples
to pray
daily for the
forgivenefsof
their
trcf-
paf
es,
u
well
as
for
their_
daily bread
;
and
what
we
are
to
pray for,
we
are
to
feek
after
;
fo
that
it
concerns
all
;
beef
fednefs
is
defirable to all,
it is
as
natural for
man
as
a
reafo-
nable
creature to delire
bleffednefs,as
it
is
for the fire to
burn
;
only
here's
the
great
miflake
in
the
world
,
all
would
have
it ,
but
they
look not for
it
in
the
right
way
:
Now
af-
ter
all
that
has been
Paid,
that
thou may'ft not
have
flight
thoughts
of
the
pardon of fin,
and fay
, I
hope
they
are
pardoned,
and
the like
;
I
fhall fpeak
to awaken
thee
:
fup-
pofe thou
wer't
now
fet
on
the brink
of
the
infinite
Ocean
of
Eternity,
and the bottomlefs
Gulf
were
ready
to devour
thee,
and
the Records
of
Heaven were
opened,
and
there
(hewed
thee that
thy
fins
were not
cancelled
,
but
remain
upon
the
file?
What
thou
would'fl
then do,
do it
now
;
for
this
is
our time
,
and this
is
the
great work
of
our
lives,
not
to
cumber
our
felves
about many
things,
but about this
one
thing,
to
work
out
our
Salvation
with fear
and
trembling
this
is
the
great work
to feek
to
fecure this bleflìng
of
the
pardon
of
our
fins, which
is
the
foundation
of
all
;
in
the
obtaining
of
it
we obtain
all
blefhngs
;
it
ought to
he
our
chief
care,
and we
ought to
lay out
our chief
ftrength
and
endeavours in feeking
of
it
;
and
if
God
would
be
pleafed
to
put his
hand to
your hearts,
and
turn
the
ftream
of your
thoughts
and
indeavours,
the very turning
of
your
hearts
after
this
bufinefs
is
a
great
mercy
;
there
is
fo much blef-
fednefs
in
it
,
as
not
only
the
obtaining
of
it,
but the
very
D
d
z
motion