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Secondly, Nay, the Text is so far from excepting against thy coming, that it strongly suggesteth, that thou art one of the souls intended, O thou coming back-slider: Else, what need that Clause. have been so inserted, I will in no wise cast out: No, as who should say, though those that come now, are such as have formerly back-slidden. I will in ⟨p. 128⟩No wise cast a way the Fornicator, the Covetous, the Railer, the Drunkard, or other common Sinners; nor yet the Back-slider neither.

Secondly, Nay, the Text is so far from excepting against thy coming, that it strongly suggesteth, that thou art one of the souls intended, O thou coming back-slider: Else, what need that Clause. have been so inserted, I will in no wise cast out: No, as who should say, though those that come now, are such as have formerly back-sliden. I will in ⟨p. 128⟩No wise cast a way the Fornicator, the Covetous, the Railer, the Drunkard, or other common Sinners; nor yet the Back-slider neither.

Thirdly, That the Back-slider is intended, is evident,

First, For that he is sent to By Name: Go, tell his Disciples, and Peter, Mark 16. 7. But Peter was a Godly Man: True; but he was also a Back-slider: yea, a desperate Back-slider. He had Denied his Master once, twice, thrice; Cursing and Swearing, that he knew him not. If this was not Back-sliding; if this was not an High and Eminent Back-sliding; yea, a higher Back-sliding than thou art capable of, I have thought amiss.