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                                                                      		child 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
                                                                      		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 instrumental
                                                                      		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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