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Fourthly: Did you ever read in all the Word of God, That ever a man was finally forsaken, who was tender in the point of sin, who sate mourning after God? We read in the Romans, That when God gave up the Gentiles to their sins, they gave up themselves unto all uncleanness, and were past feeling. The Saints and ⟨p. 161⟩People of God, on the contrary, in the time of their Desertion, are tender in the point of sin, and they mourn after God: When was a man ever forsaken, whose heart was in this frame?

Fourthly: Did you ever read in al the Word of God, That ever a man was finally forsaken, who was tender in the point of sin, who sate mourning after God? We read in the Romans, That when God gave up the Gentiles to their sins, they gave up themselves unto al uncleanness, and were past feeling. The Saints and ⟨p. 161⟩People of God, on the contrary, in the time of their Desertion, are tender in the point of sin, and they mourn after God: When was a man ever forsaken, whose heart was in this frame?

Fifthly: Did you ever read that Christ did finally forsake a man in whose heart, and soul, still he did leave his Goods, Furniture, and Spiritual Household-stuff? A man sometimes goes from home▪ and sometimes he doth quite leave his house. There is much difference between those two: If a man leave his house, and comes no more, then he carries away all his goods; and when ye see them carried away, ye say, this man will come no more. But though a man ride a great Journey, yet he may come again; and ye say, surely he will come again; why? Because still his Goods, Wife, and Children are in his House. So if Christ reject a man, and go away finally, he carries away all his Goods, Spiritual Gifts, Graces, and Principles: But though he be long absent, yet if his Household-stuff abide in the heart; if there be the same desires after him, and delight in him, and admiring of him, and mourning for want of him; ye may say, surely he will come again; Why? Because his Household-stuff is here still. When did, Christ ever forsake a man, in whose heart he left this Spiritual Furniture?