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worst enemies, I most firmly believe and trust that thou
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wilt not forsake me in my distresses and miseries, but
wilt provide for me with a care and generosity which I
should vainly look for in my dearest friend.
O most loving God, although my sins are so manifold
and so grievous that they deserve athousand hells, yet by
reason of thine infinite goodness I so securely expect
from thee remission of them all, provided only they
grieve me, as in deed and in truth they do, that I could
more easily doubt my own existence than the certainty of
this remission. O infinite goodness, so tender is my
confidence in thee, that even if I had sinned a thousand
times more than I have, and knew that thine anger was
fiercely kindled against me, yet, could I choose my own
judge, I would choose none other than thee. In thee
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alone, and in none other than thee, would I trust, and I
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should more certainly hope for mercy at thy hand than
from my best and dearest friend.
For if I had sinned as often and as grievously against any
one of my friends as I have against thee, I am most sure
that I could not hope for pardon, even from the most
tender and compassionate of mothers. Yea, had I been so
rebellious and so unloving to my own mother as I have
been to thee, she would have cast me off forever. But
thou, not-withstanding all the many and grievous insults
I have heaped upon thee, and not-withstanding all my
many and grievous negligences in thy service, dost still
cherish and sustain me.
And dost thou think, O most loving Father, that I have
the smallest doubt that I shall attain to everlasting bliss?
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