ttJ the _Chief of Sinners. 1-19 ~nd have, I truft,therein difcerned the Lords– Body as broken for my ftns,and .. that his . precious. blood hath.bee.u.lhed;for· my.~'Pvran,.,. greffions-. . .. • • • . 256. ll·."'on a ttme I was famewh~t tnth- – ning to a Cctnfumption,wherewith about the · Spring I wai fuddenly and violently fei~ed., with much weaknefs in n1y outward -Man: .. lnfomuch that ~ thought I· could not live• . Now I began a ;.refh to give tny. felf up to a . feri0us exarnination after·my ftate ·and con- . dition f0r the fut_ure;and of my evidences for · that Bleffed World: to C.Oine: for it hath; I' blefs t he:nan1e ofGod, beea n1y ufual courfe, as always,fo efpedally. in. the day of afflicti– on, to end·eavour to .ke·ep my intere~ in Life · to comt?; . clear before rr1ine Eye. 2)7.Butl had no.fooner began to recal to '· mind my forn1er Ex p,;:· iep.ce, of the good; nefs 'of God to rr; ·) ~ t~ L; but there came ' flocking into n1y n1i. ;;.:<1., r n innutnerable com– pany of mv Si:1s anu Tr~nfg:e ffions,amonr:Jl: which thefe \V eT c at tbL rime mofr to n1y afRiCtion, natnely n1y deadnefs, dulnefs and, coldnefs in holy Duties_;nly we1ndrings of · heart,ofmy \. 11 leariComnefs in all good things, n1y want of lovt: to God, his way and Peo . ple, with this at the.end of all, Are theft the Fruits ~f Chriflianity ? Are thefo tht To,~ens of~ · a ble/ferl Ma11. · ' · 258. At the apprehenfions o(thefe thing~.; - my 11cknefs was. dduble~ upon .me, fJr no\/1 -' f 3 W-as
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