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2. Though they backslide from God for a time, yet he will recover them again: I will heal their Back-slidings, and will love them freely. See here, that God's People by their Backslidings, do not ¹lose his choice Love and Affections: No, no, he will love them still, and that freely too; and will not rest till he heals them of that Sickness, which is the worst they can relapse into.

1. 1Hos. 14. 4.

3. The Elect are another sort, they are not of them that backslide so, that God's Soul takes no pleasure in them: But we are not of them who draw back unto Perdition, but of them that believe to the ¹Salvation of the Soul. There are some that so draw back, after they have made a high Profession of the Gospel; but Christ's Sheep are not Sons of Perdition, but Sons of Faith, or true and sincere Believers, they cannot so sin, so apostatize: because the Seed remains in them, they cannot commit Sin; they cannot sin as others ²do, not so as to lose God's Love, or not sin unto Death; therefore cannot perish: They went out from us, but they were not of us; ³for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us, &c. They were not such that had real Union with Christ, the ⟨p. 191⟩true Anointing was not in them, they were not of Christ's Sheep, not sincere Believers, not Elect Ones. From hence let me draw this Argument;