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,
.
OUR
PRONENESS.
TO
DEPART
FROM GOD.
vast
difference
there
is
between
innocent
and
fallen man
innocent
man
was
like to
God,
fallen man
is
assimilated
to the fallen
angels.
See,
in the
next
place,
what a neces-
sity
there
is
of
self
-
denial,
if
ever
we
would
be
restored
from
the
ruins
of
our
fall.
We
must
turn
away
from
our
own
inclinations
if
ever
we
would
turn
to God
;
for
the
way
of
man
and the
way
of'God
are
just
contrary
to one
another. The
Fifth
doctrine.
It
is
possible for the
children
of
God
to
turn
aside
further
from
him,
even while he
is
dealing
with them
in
order
to
their
recovery.
" I
was
wroth
for
his
"
iniquity, and
I
smote
him,
and
hid my face
from him
;
"and
after
this
he
went
on
frowardly
after the
way
of
his
"
own
heart." This
is
not the character of
all
christians;
but I
say
there are
some
who
run
this length, they refuse
to
be
reconciled after
many
methods
that
God
has used
with
them.
Some
there are
that
tremble
at
his word,
and
no sooner
do
they hear the
voice
of
the Lord speaking
a
word
to them,
Return
ye,
but
their hearts
answer,
Lord,
we
return
:
such
are the
souls
that
dwell
with God,
with
whom
God
dwells.
He
guides them
with his
eye
;
one
look of
his eye
turns
thetrí to himself. Again,
there
are
others
that
have
not
so
soft
a
temper,
that
yet
may be
awakened
with
the first
strokes
of
God's
rod,
and
God
has no need
of
laying on
stroke after
stroke.
Others
again are
not
sensibly
touched
till
God
begins to hide
his
fäce
from
them
;
they
may
be smitten and yet
may
not
return
back to the
Lord;
but
when
he hides
his face,
then
they cry with
Job,
"
Why hidest
thou thy'face, and
"
countest
me as
thine enemy?
Some
there
are
that
must
have both these
inflicted
upon
them together, or
else they
will
not
return
;
they
that are
the
best
of
saints
may
fall
into this
case.
David
was
much
afflicted with
both
these before
he was
awakened
of
his sin
;
"
Deep
"
calls
unto
deep at
the noise
of
thy water
-
spouts,
all
"
thy
waves
and
thy
billows have
gone over
me."
Sò
you
find
Jonah,
when he
had
been commanded
to deli-
ver
his message. to
Nineveh,
he refused
;
he
went
away
frowardly after
the
way
of
his own
heart. God
was
angry and
hid
his
face from him
;
God
cast
him
into
the
sea,
and
ordered a
whale to
swallow him,
and
then
he
cries
out,
"
I
cried
by
reason
of
mine
affliction
unto
the
" Lord
;
out
of
the
belly
of
hell
cried
I,,
for thou
bast