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w hich gives us Assurance of eternal Salvation, if we place all° Ur Trust in him. Far be it from me, to insist upon being■finished with Merits and Pardons, and provoke my God toe nter into fudgment with his Servant, in whose Sight no FleshVl1l g shall be justified; because his Mercy is boundless andUns Peakable, to it I appeal from his fustice. The Parson hear-> n 8 *-his, went away ; and Cornelius with great Joy andtearfulness (as one transported with the Hope of a betterlte ) caused some Texts to be read out of the holy Scrip-res . that confirm the Hope of the Resurrection, and set^. e °re him the Rewards of Immortality; as that out offfiT-ah, concerning the Death of Hezekiah , together with theymn ; and then the fifteenth Chapter of the first EpistlePaul to the Corinthians ; the Death of Lazarus out of! but especially the History of Christ ’s Passion, out ofe Gospels. But O with what Affection did he take in all^ Se Scriptures, sighing at some Passages, folding hisan d s ) as in Thankfulness, at others ; one While rapt andr J°y’d at some Passages, and another While sending up

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j. Ejaculations ! After Dinner, having taken a littleor< ^ er ( l the twelfth Chapter of St. fohn to be read,^ e End of the Story. Here you would have said the. n Was transfigured and possessed with a new Spirit.en E grew toward Evening, he called for his Wife anti1 dren, and raising himself as well as he could, he thusu thom : My dear Wife, the same God that once joined

too°^ et ^ ler ' now P art HS < hut only in our Bodies, and thattk ^ 0ν a s h° ri Time. That Care, Kindness, and Piety, thatP°ieJ laSt ^therto used to divide betwixt me, and the tenderthe °f our mutual Love, do thou now transfer wholly toq o ^ ' Think thou canst do nothing more acceptable either toq , °* io me, than to educate, cherish, and instruct those whomn la * as given us the Fruit of our conjugal Relation, that theyu Pon 6 f° un d worthy of Christ . Double therefore thy Pietythe l e ^ Ια η, and account upon my Share too, as translated untob e thou shall do this, as I trust thou wilt, they will notacc °unted Orphans; and if ever thou shouldst marry