I am daily more and more convinced, that the promises of God to his people, are absolute; and desire to build my hopes on the free electing love of God in Christ Jesus to my soul, before the world began; which, I can experimentally and feelingly say, hath delivered me from the lowest hell. He hath plucked me as a brand out of the fire. Though my ways were dreadfully dangerous to the last degree, his eye was all along upon me for good. He hath excited me to love much, by forgiving me much. He hath shewed me, and still daily shows me the abominable deceit, lust, enmity, and pride of my heart, and the inconceivable depths of his mercy; how far I was fallen, and how much it cost him of sweat and blood to bring me up.—He hath proved himself stronger than I and his goodness superior to all my unworthiness. He gives me to know and to feel too, that without him I can do nothing.

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