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(Of indignation against the world, Remember 8th verse of 37th Psalm   		that the change from a state of life to a state of death,
Conf. however, Jeremiah 6, 27, 29.                                    		is instantaneous:  Yet we have no difficulty in understanding
                                                                      		what is meant when we say that a man is Dying:  He may
                                                                      		be dying for some hours - or for some days - or for some
                                                                      		months;  but he is certainly to be considered dying from
                                                                      		the time he is first struck by a moral disease, or at
                                                                      		least, all the time such disease is making progress:  Nay
                                                                      		in some sense, as we are making progress towards death,
                                                                      		we die daily;  but in no doubtful sense we are dying from
                                                                      		the time the preparations for death begin to be made in
                                                                      		our frame.
                                                                      		Is not this or may it not be true also of conversion;
                                                                      		Is not a man Converting - as we say he is dying:  Does not
                                                                      		he sometimes die to the world just as slowly and with as
                                                                      		hard struggles as his physical form expires.  Does not his
                                                                      		Christian soul give up the world grievously and agonizingly,
                                                                      		till it comes to the last gasp of sin, and is dead to it.
                                                                      		Some persons are doubtless converted as a man is killed
                                                                      		by lightning  Some are converted not knowing how - as men
                                                                      		die in their sleep, some struggle with their conversion
                                                                      		and thrust if off by strength of heart as men do their
                                                                      		deaths, and some it is a lingering conversion of many
                                                                      		wearing years.
                                                                      		(Thus conf. Peter with Paul)		Now p 5 of M S

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