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chil[d]d is as secure as your own: on the same conditions.
If therefore you feel yourself so secure, that there is
no further need for you to resist unto death - striving
against sin - no further need for you to keep under your
body and bring into subjection - no further occasion to
morfity your members which are upon the earth - If you
feel that you can dispense with the aids with which God
has provided you - and brave the dangers against which
God has warned you; and this without risk to your soul
then also, from this Younger Soldier in Christ’s army -
from this feebler pilgrim in Christ’s way, like the[w]
shield of faith and sword of the word - let him trust in
his assurance of Salvation; subject him to no discipline
and to no reproof - instruct him not in the will of his
Maker - train him not in his ways - suffer him to forego
every vantage which his own exertion might be instrumen-
tal to procure; and trust still that he will endure to
the end and be saved: But if this you dare not do in
your own case, much less dare you do it in His.
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