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 but would rather die in your ſins than employ him.

4. Believers themſelves may be aſhamed and confounded, for that iniquity prevails ſo againſt them. Alas! it is a ſad ſign the Saviour is little employed among us. Little living by faith, makes little holineſs of life. O look to that ſin which ſo eaſily beſets you, that has ſo often wrecked your ſoul's eaſe: Believe you have a Saviour for it, and employ him.

II. For trial.

Try whether the Saviour of the world, by office, is your actual Saviour; whether or not he has ſaved you. Think not that Chriſt puts off his ſaving of ſinners, till they come to heaven: True, they are not completely ſaved till they be there; but, if their ſalvation by Christ is not begun here, you ſhall never get therothere [sic], Tit. iii. 5. 6. 7. 'Not by works of righteouſneſs, which we have done, but according to his mercy, he ſaved us by the waſhing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghoſt; which he ſhed on us abundantly, through Jeſus Chriſt our Saviour: That, being juſtified by his grace, we ſhould be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.' And ye have no right before the Lord to his table, if he has not been a Saviour to you actually and eventually in having ſaved you from ſin and wrath initially, though not completely: For if it is not ſo, it is an evidence yon have not