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                                                                      	that the change from a state of life to a state of death,
                                                                      is instantaneous:  Yet we have no difficulty in understand-
                                                                      ing what i[z]s meant when we say that a man is Dying:  He may
	(Of indignation against the world, Remember 8th verse of             be dying for some hours - or for some days - or for some
37th Psalm Conf. however, Jeremiah 6, 27, 29.                         months;  but he is certainly to be c[s]ons[d]idered 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 agonizing
                                                                      ly, 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.
                                                                      
                                                                      			  Now p 5 of M S
                                                                      
                                                                      	(Then conf. Peter with Paul)

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