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2. You that grow more dead in God's service, and leave your first love, give great advantage to Satan. The less violent ⟨p. 108⟩you are, the more violent he is; the less you pray, the more he tempts: and what a case are you now in? How can grace that is weak and sickly withstand violent temptations; Hence it is, God suffers his own people sometimes to fall into sin, as a just punishment of their lukewarmness, and to make them more zealous and violent for the future.

3. Your remissness in Religion, though it may not damn you, it will damage you. You will lose that degree of glory, which else you might have had. Though your remissness may not lose your Crown, it will lessen it, and make it weigh lighter.

3. Your remisness in Religion, though it may not damn you, it will dammage you. You will lose that degree of glory, which else you might have had. Though your remisness may not lose your Crown, it will lessen it, and make it weigh lighter.

4. The more lazy a Christian's desires are, the more lively his corruptions. The weaker the body grows, the stronger the disease grows. Oh therefore pray for quickening grace, Psal. 143. 11. Beg fresh gales of the Spirit to blow upon you. Never leave till you have recovered that holy violence which once you had.

4. The more lazy a Christian's desires are, the more lively his corruptions. The weaker the body grows, the stronger the disease grows. Oh therefore pray for quikning grace,