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and I
will
heal
him
:
he,
has been
ready to
forget'
himself
by
forgetting
me,
but
I
will
not
forget
him,
I
will
have
compassion on
him;
he has
little
to
de
with
me now
in
all the
afla.irs
of
life,
but
nay
eye
runs
to
and fro
through
the
earth
to do
him
good;
though
he
does
not
know it
is
his
case,
and
his
circumstances are
before
me,
saith
the
Lord,
whomsoever
God
has
fixed his love
upon,
there
is
not
one moment
of
God's duration
that
that
soul
is
not
fixed
upon
his
heart.;
he
remembers
us
with an ever-
lasting remembrance.
II.
As
a
tendency
towards
the
creature introduces a
forgetfulness
of God,
so
it
brings
a
negligence
of
duties
towards
God. For
when
the
heart
takes up
with
some
created
good,
then
there
will
not
be
that
delight and
satisfaction
that
there
once
was in
duty;
and
when
once
the relish
of
a
performance
is
lost,
there
will
be
a
weari-
ness in
it
;
and
when
there
is
a
weariness, there
will
follow
a
negligence
in
it,
and, gradually an
omission
of
duties
and worship
will follow,
and
perhaps
a total
neg-
lect of
both public and private devotion.
For
a season
a
person
may suffer a
despairing thought
so to
prevail as
to
neglect waiting upon
God':
yet,
saith God,
.
I
will
not
neglect
him,
I
remember
him,
and
I
will
heal him
;
he
is
grown weary
of
me,
but
I
am
not
grown weary of
my love to
him,
or
of
my
kind
concern for
him
;
there
is
a
deadness and
coldness
in his
heart
when he
draws
nigh
to
me;
but
my
heart
has the' same warmth
of
love
to
him as
ever it
had
;
though the manifestations
of
it
are
various,
yet the spring
of
love
is
everlastingly the
same.
Ile
has
not
called upon
me in
secret, but
my
eye
is
continually
upon
him
there
;
he has
not
waited upon me
in public,
though
my
blessings wait
for
hirn
in Zion.
III.
When the
soul
grows strong
in
this
love
towards
some
created
object,
and
departs
from
God, it
will be
ready
to
go
on
in
the contrary path.
.
And
this has been
the experience
of
many
christians,
that
when they have
given
a
loose to
their
desires
in
the
pursuit of
a lawful
thing, too
far,
they have been
left to
fall,
into
great
and
scandalous
sins.
Yet,
saith
God,
though
he walks
con-
trary
to
rae,
I
will
not
walk
contrary
to
him
;
I
will
.
turn
my face to him now
before he
turns
to me.
"
I
have
"seen
his
ways,
and
I
will
heal him."
IV. The creature
may
so
far
lose his
God
and
the