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2. For the gate of grace and knowledge standeth likewise in a peculiar motion [and doth open itself in a singular desire and affection], that the children of Christ might also reap in their harvest [and fruits of Christian love and piety, as well as the children of

Babel their harvest of envy, contention, and desolation], if they would but seriously labour, and not lie so faint and sluggish in the sleep of Antichrist, as the grace of the Most High hath given me to know and understand.