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given me did partake and I did eat, as much as if he had told the Almighty if he had not have given him the woman he should not have violated the law, this was the first excuse that was made use of, but it did not answer, nor no excuse will answer us but do what God has demanded of us, now judge for yourselves as wise men, that must meet me at the tribunal bar of God, and there to answer for the hearing of the gospel, and I for preaching of the gospel; now unless Jesus Christ in word or the holy bible, has shewed us the place called good purgatory as some people have called it, me thinks that place will be in hell, without they first give us the laws or some assurance of that place, if so it would be better for them to stop in time and come back again to the gate of repentance, for the man is something like unto the camel, there was a gate in the city of Jerusalem called the needle eye just large enough for the camel to go through himself without his load, and when conducted to the gate he could not enter in on the account of his load, and when ordered by his conductors to kneel down then taking the load from off him, then the camel went through with haste into the city, and so it is now with man from the fall of our fore parent, he is loaded with iniquity and full of sin, and now he may sail east, west, north or south and the wall of God's power so much surpasses the wall of Jerusalem, that he cannot enter in unless he first comes in the way of repentance, by kneeling down as the camel did and the load of sin shall be taken off, and proving faithful you shall enter into the city of God's rest, for repentance is essentially necessary for all men, Titus 2 c. 11 v. the grace of God that bringeth forth salvation hath appeared unto all men, and if so we all ought to comply with God's word, for the light is for us to see how to walk that we need not stumble, and the grace teaches us to do his will, and it is in our power to come to God, and if we do not come this light which he has given us will become darkness unto us, for it is well known that Christ is the saviour of the world, and it is in our power to choose or to refuse and while we have the sun we better come to the gospel feast, as the poet said while the lamp holds out to burn the vilest sinner may return; this is to be understood while God's spirit is a striving with man, this is called the lamp of grace, Gen. 6 c.
