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GODS
METHOD
OF
HEALING.
will
touch
him
with my
finger,
and then
he shall
read
my
epistle
of
love
with
gratitude
and delight, and
he shall
feet
every word
that
he reads.
O
!
it
is
well
for
us,
that
we have such.
a
God
as
this
is,
that
can
turn hearts into
flesh
when
they have almost
grown into
stone the
second
time.
III.
I
will
heal
him
;
that
is,
I
will
turn
his
perverted
will
towards
me again.
It
was
once
in
a
state
of
sinful
nature, but
I brought
him
near
me,
and
he has
forsaken
his
God
again, and runs astray
like
a
wild ass, snuffing
up
the
wind;
but I
will
recover
him,
saitli the
Lord,
and
bring him,near
to
myself
Behold, I, even I,
am he
that
blots
out
thy iniquities,
and cancels thy transgressions
for
my own name's sake.
Ephraim
has
turned aside
from me
like
a backsliding heifer,
but
I
will
make
Ephraim
turn
to me
and
say,
Lord,
do
thou
turn
me,
and
I
shall
be
turned.
IV.
I
will heal
him.
I
will
mortify
his
appetite
to
sin in general, and
particularly to
his
beloved lust,
to his
dear
idol.
I
might
give him
up to all the
lusts
of
his own
heart,
and might
say to him,
Rebel,
what
have
I
to
do
with thee
?
go on
in
sin,
plunge thyself
into endless ruin,
But, saith the
Lord,I
will
touch
his
heart
and
his
tongue
too, and
I
will
make
Ephraim
cry
out, Lord, turn
me
and
I
shall
be
turned.
I
might
send him to
the
gods
whom he
has served, and
say,
go
and
find
comfort from
them
;
but
I,
even
I
will
be his
God
:
I
know
how
in-
sufficient all
creatures
are
for
his
relief
:
I
will
wean
his
heart
from every
other
love
;
he
has indulged a vicious
appetite
to
forbidden and poisonous
fruit,
but I
will
prevent,the spiritual mortality, and
he
shall sit under my
shadow with
great
delight.
V.
I
will heal him
;
that
is,
I
will
renew
all
his
in-
ward
passions,
I
will
renew
all his affections
;
I
have
done
it once already,
but
he has
almost
lost
the divine
tincture, but I
will
restore
it again.
He
has scattered
his soul
amongst a
thousand
vanities,
but
I
will reassume
all
his
faculties into
my
own
hands, and
I
will
create
them
all
anew.
He
has
hoped for peace
in
the neglect
of
duty,
but
I
will
teach
him
that
there
is
no
comfort
in
created'things.
I
will sanctify
his
joy,
his
faith,
%iis
love,
and
his
fear
;
he
shall fear nothing
but
my
displeasure,
and
his
joy,
his
faith,
and
his love shall
all make
their