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Of
the
measres
whereby
our
faith
may be
firoTthened. 547
him,I
may
boldly
challenge
forg.iueneffe
visa
thing
ofright
appertaining
to
me.
And thus
arc
wee
to
refill Satans
temptations,
and
though
we be often foiled, yet
to
rife
againc,in
nQ
cafe
fuffering
him
toplucke
out
of
our
hand the
fhield
of
faith, though
he
hath
difarmed
vs
of
the
bref}
-plate ofrighteoufhes;
for
if
once we
be dcpriucd
ofthis
part
of
this
fpirituail
armour,wee (hall
Iie
open
to
al
his
blower
and
thrufls,vntil
we be wounded
to
the
very
death.
But
roof}
lamentable it
is
to
fee
the grieuous
miferie
of
4
Poore
humbled
finners,
«hcrunto
they
are
brought through
Though
h'
a
the
violence
of
Satans
tentations;
for.
howfoeuer
feeling the
fl
ó1e4
tonfcif
heauy
waight
oftheir other fnnes
they
carnet
}ly
defire
to be
once
abborrezv
freed from
them,howfoeuer
being tormented
with the
Brie-
other
finnes,ytt
eons Iinart
oftheir
other
wickcdneíle they
hate
and
abhor
it
it
eafi-P
yet
they
eaG1
fuller themfelues
to
be plunged
into
del
erati_
ncth
to
delft.
Y-
Y
p
g
P
ration.
on
with
euery
friuolous
tentation,
and
quietly
offer
th
it
hands
tobe
manacled and
bound
in there
giucs
of
hell
with-
out
refit}ance.
But
let
all
fuch
ilir
vp
themfelucs, and
gather
their
oppreffed fpirits all
together,
Paying
to
their owne
con
-
fciences,I
hate
and deteff from
my
heart my former
wicked-
nes,and
(hall
I
now enrertaine
a
fin
more horrible
then
al
the
ref}
?theburthen
ofmy
other
fins
opprefle
me,and make mee
earne(fly
to
defire eafe;
andfhail
I
adde
a
loade
farre
more
in-.
tollerable to
my
affiiOted
confciencc
?
I
am filled
with
(
haine
and
confufion,
becaufe
by
my
former
fumes
I
haue
difho-
nouredmy gratious God?
and fhal
I
continue
more to difho-
n.ourhim
by doubting
of
and
denying his mereie, iuffice,
and truth
in his
promifes
?
I
haue
heretofore with
Judas
be-
traied my
Sauiour Chrif}
unto
.the
death,
yea, and
with my
finnes
I haue whipped,
mocked,
and
crucified
hita,
and
now
Itee
hauing made
fill
fatisfaó'ion for
my.finnes,and called
me
unto
him
that
hec may
cafe
toe
ofthis.intoller.able.burthen
thould
I with
Iced
s
refute
to tome,
defperatly
cafe
offal
hopt
.
et
wereic,and become wine owoe hangman?be it
farre
from
me,
nay
as
I
hate
all
other
fin,,fo
let
me
hate this
aboue.all
the
ref},as.heingmore hainous therral.the
ref};
as
I
defire
to'beç
eared
and
freed from
the heauy
burthen-ofother
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