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First, if through infirmity we have fallen, ¹(as who doth not) and will know whether thereby we have lost the spirit of God, or no, let us examine what liking or misliking we have of sin: for if we still hold our former hatred of that, and the oftener we fall, the more thoroughly & deadly ⟨p. 194⟩hatred we conceive against it, undoubtedly that frailty hath not as yet deprived us of the spirit; for this holy detestation of sin is a fruit of the spirit.

First, if through infirmitie wee haue fallen, ¹(as who doth not) and will know whether thereby wee haue lost the spirit of God, or no, let vs examine what liking or misliking we haue of sinne: for if wee still hold our former hatred of that, and the oftener we fal, the more thoroughly & deadly ⟨p. 194⟩hatred wee conceiue against it, vndoubtedly that frailty hath not as yet depriued vs of the spirit; for this holy detestation of sin is a fruit of the spirit.

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Secondly, ¹consider how it standeth with thy sorrow: for so long as thy sorrow for sin increaseth, it cannot be, that the spirit should be quenched in thee.