44 O!JieCf. ' 0nfi.v· -Cf'he Churches Marriage. \ {halt forgive thy brother to feaventy times fea· ven times, fure h~e is able to forgive to feaventy tsoufand rimes feaven times. · But my ~nnesare exce~dinggreat as the migh .. · ty moumames. They {hall be drowned in the bottorne of the fea, that is as able to drowne moun taines, as the leafi: hill. Oh! but they are exceeding many;I am guilty ofall variety of finne s, there is fcarce any groife finne, but I have committed it. There is as great variety and multitudes ofmer– cy, tocover and fw~llow them. You will fay, this is poffible ifmy .heartwere · foft, Clble to repent;. bL1t I haveahard obdurate heart,. Ifthy heart be hard, he can take away that fl.o,. ny heart, and give thee a fiefhy heart; this hee bath promifed: Why now what haft thou to doe? ev~n to lay faft holdon this word, as they did on. the homes of the Altar , and even goe and fay to the Lord, Lord, I will hold me here. Lord, it is · thy word, thou canftnot deny it; Lord, ifthou wilt kill me, here I will dye, I will not let my hold goe .: I fay, if thou doe but take hold ofthis word , Tht~t Re juflifieth t·he ung.odly~ ana whofoever r:rill h.eleeve [hall heJaved: if tho~ take this bold , 1 affure thee, my life for thine, it is impoffibie, bur the Lord fhould in the end give thee this an . fwer, Be ofgood comfert, thyfaithh~thfaved.thee. I deny no.t, but tpat the Lord may bold off for a wbile, for a time he may keepe offand give thee hard words, and fay as bee did to the womas of - - . Canaan,
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