This appears to be a forgery.
"SheBlewHimDidYouBlowHim" <killgod@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> in God as their whole and everlasting
> ****tion; and of their ardent and longing desire after God, to have
> communion with Him; and others, more of their abhorrence to themselves
> for their past sins, and earnest longings to live to God's glory for the
> time to come. But it seems evidently to be the same work, the same
> habitual change wrought in the heart; it all tends the same way, and to
> the same end; and it is plainly the same spirit that breathes and acts
> in various persons. There is an endless variety in the particular manner
> and cir***stances in which persons are wrought on; and an op****tunity of
> seeing so much will show that God is further from confining Himself to a
> particular method in His work on souls than some imagine. I believe it
> has occasioned some good people amongst us, who were before too ready to
> make their own experience a rule to others, to be less censorious and
> more extended in their charity; and this is an excellent advantage
> indeed. The work of God has been glorious in its variety; it has the
> more displayed the manifold and unsearchable wisdom of God, and wrought
> more charity among His people.
>
> There is a great difference among those who are converted, as to the
> degree of hope and satisfaction they have concerning their own state.
> Some have a high degree of satisfaction in this matter almost
> constantly; and yet it is rare that any enjoy so full an assurance of
> their interest in Christ that self-examination should seem needless to
> them; unless it be at particular seasons, while in the actual enjoyment
> of some great discovery God gives of His glory and rich grace in Christ,
> to the drawing forth of extraordinary acts of grace. But the greater
> part, as they sometimes fall into dead frames of spirit, are frequently
> exercised with scruples and fears concerning their condition.
>
> They generally have an awful apprehension of the dreadful nature of a
> false hope; and there has been observable in most
>
>
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