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Go
jpel
gein
.sion.
of
God
fo
much
as
this
one
work of
the pardon
of
fin, and
yet
your
thoughts are
not taken up
with it,you
little mind
it
:certainly
there
is a
great difproportion
between
your
thoughts
and
Gods;
-whereas
thofe
that
are
godly , fhould labour
to
work
as
God
works
;
and
thofe things that
hath
taken up
the heart of
God,
fhould
tike
up
their
hearts
;
whereas thofe things
that are
even
unworthy of
an
immortal
Soul take up
your
thoughts,
and thofe
objefts
that
take
up the
thoughts
and
heart ofGod
about
pardon-
ing
fin,
your
own
Confciences can
tell you
is
very
little
in
your
thoughts
and
hearts
:
Certainly
my
Brethren,were
the
thoughts
of
men and
women taken up
about this
fez`ious
and
great
bufinefs
of
getting
pardon
of their
fin,
it
would
prevent
and
cure them
of
thoufands
of
other vain,
flight,
foolith
and
wicked
thoughts.
There are,
I
fuppofe, many
of you
begin
to
be
fenfible
of
fin,and
of
the
bate
wandrin,
filthy,
unclean,
and
wicked thoughts
of
your
hearts
;
and you fay
,
O that
we could but help
our
(elves
againft
thefe
wandring,
vile and
wicked
thoughts furely
this would
be
a
great help,
if
you
would
get
your
thoughts pof-
feft
with
ferious
fubjeds,
it would have
a
great
deal
of
weight
in
it,to
help you againft thofe
light
and
vain
things
your thoughts
work
about.
Now
of
all
fubjects
in
the
world,
this
is
the
molt
ferious
about
the
grace
of
God ;
horn
his
infinite
wifclom
hath
wrought
to
reconcile him
felf
to
your
fouls_,
in
the
bringing
about
the pardon
of
fn
;and making
peace
between
hin
felf
and th,Chil-
dren
of
men.
Now
if
you would
take up
your thoughts about
the
great
bufinefs
of
getting pardon
of your
fins,
it
would take off
your
thoughts
from other
things
:
Suppofe
a
man
have
a
vain,
flight,wandring,foolifh heart
:
yet if
he
were condemn(d
to
dye
fome
dreadful
tormenting death,
his
thoughts
would quickly
be
taken
off
from other things,
and taken up about ufing means,
if
there were
any poffibility
to
deliver
himfel
from
death.
7erom
in one
of
his
Epiftles bath this Relation of
one
that
was
troubled
with
vile
thoughts,&
he,that
heconiplained
unto had
this
device,
I
name it not
to
approve
it,but
he
had this device,
he brought the
man to
have
a
charge of
a
crime
laid againft him and
caul,
d
him to
be
brought before
a
Judge,
and
put into
Prifon,
'and
af-
terward
he came to
hint,
and
askt
him, How
is
it
now with
you
?
Does
your
vain
thoughts
(till abide
with you
as
they were
M
2
wont
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