- ~ lleart-Treafore~ 53 infiniteGad to fttpply the tt:eafures of Prace • · ·.\ fo that let a~Chrifiian fall off to r,nanyacts of ., - fill, cafeleft1effe in l)utie , and a courfe o£ , · loofendle, yet this Treafure wil' work h~m >off : as a ·spring clears it {elf fr<Im mud in"time, [o he fhal be reduced toGo& ; there - ·is fomething in the l1eart of a back:· fliding Saint that makes him refileffe in that, e– , fiace, an,dmoving towards the 'Center ; Da– . via faith, I ' have gone aftray fik.!· a l(Jft (hecp, , [there's his acknpwledgement] ~eek_thJ fer- _ .·vant [there's his requefl ,,] for I do 11ot forget_ th] Comm.andtmenJs [there's the-argument to j inforce it] ·q.-d. th_ere is y'et foQ1ething in my heart that owns ·thee, though I be fal- .... ~ len far , yet n.ot 1'9 far but that I am £till reaching after thee, and 1 am not fallen b~' low thy ,rfach : the truth is, ~ Cbilde of \ ·· God ~1ath .more hold-fafr ut Gnd_ c i11 his_" ·lowefl: ebbs than another finner hath j as , -the Spinficr leaveth a loc~ of wool to draw on the next threcd, fo _thc;r ~ is fomething · left in the heart, the feed of Goo that af... - , .cenqs Heaven-w .:t rds : tbougl~ a. Saint be in ·:· a very dead frame, yet he is not cwice dead, , as.wicked men are : there is vet the root of the matter in the- hea.rr, tbat .by the fent of ·.. water (the he~venly dew of divine Grace) · wil {prout again, and brjng forth fruit : -· I . difpute not how far men may fal, and whe~ ~ ther a true Saint may not be brought back to rhe bare habits of gra_ce as the.ywere at fi1 fi: ' . infu(ed, ·an_dlofe de~aiCes of grace ob[aincd : . . But {nre I atnChrifl: ~rayed for Peter, (an.J ·, . .. .. ( ' ~ . ~ 3 ~ · .. y .J ... .. - '· ' V
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