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Perhaps, When thy Cause is tried, things for the present are upon this Issue. Thy Adversary indeed is cast, but whether thou shalt have an absolute Discharge, as Peter had, or a conditional one as David, 2 Sam. 12.10, 11, 14. and as the Corinthians had that's the Question. True, thou shalt be completely saved at last, but yet whether 'tis not best to leave to thee a Memento of God's Displeasure, against thy Sin, by awarding, that the ⟨p. 88⟩Sword shall never depart from thy House; or that some sore Sickness or other Distresses shall haunt thee as long as thou livest or perhaps that thou shalt walk without the Light of Gods Countenance, for several Years, and a Day. Now if any of these three things happen unto thee, thou must exercise Patience and wait. Thus did David, I waited patiently: And again, He exercises his Soul in this Virtue, saying, My Soul, wait thou only upon him, for my Expectation is from him, Psal 62.5. For now we are Judged of the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the World: And by this Judgment, (though it sets us free from their Damnation) yet we are involved in many Troubles: And perhaps must wait many a Day before we can know, That, as to the ma•n, the Verdict hath gone on our Side. Thus therefore in order to thy waiting upon him, without fainting, it is meet, that thou shouldest know the Methods of him that manages thy Cause for thee, in Heaven; And, suffer not Mistrust to b•eak in and bear sway in thy Soul: For he will (at length) bring thee forth to the Light, and thou shalt behold his Righteousness. She also that is thine Enemy shall see it, and Shame shall cover her that said unto thee, where is thy God?

Perhaps, When thy Cause is tryed, things for the present are upon this Issue. Thy Adversary indeed is cast, but whether thou shalt have an absolute Discharge, as Peter had, or a conditional one as David, 2 Sam. 12.10, 11, 14. and as the Corinthians had that's the Question. True, thou shalt be compleatly saved at last, but yet whether 'tis not best to leave to thee a Memento of God's Displeasure, against thy Sin, by awarding, that the ⟨p. 88⟩