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2,
--
·
.Grace
A~oundiHg
to School, to learn both to read and
write ·
the
which I
alfo attained,
according to
th~
Rate of
other poor
Mens Children ;
though,
to
my
Shame, I tonfefs, I did foon lofe
that
little
I
lerant,
eyen almoft
utterly,
and that
long before the
Lord
did work
his
gracious
.~ork
ofConverfion
upon
my
Soul.
·
4··
As for
my
own natural Life,for the thne
that
I was without
God
in the
World,
it
was
i.ndeed,according to the Courfo ofthis World,and
the Spirit that
f!OW
worluth in the Children of
·
difobedience,
Eph.
2. 2,
3·
It
was
my
delight
to
be taken ca·p.tive
4Y
theDevil,at.his
will;
1
Tim.
2.
26.
being filled with
all
Uniighteoufnefs :
The which did alfo fo Urongly work,and put
forth
it
Jelfboth in
my
Heart
&
Life,
&
that
from a Child, that I had but few Equals (ef.
pecially
confidering
my
Years~
which
wer~
ten–
der,
being
few)
both
(or
curfing.fvvearing,ly·
ing and blafpheming the Holy Name of
God.
5.
Yea,
fo
fetled
and
_rooted
was I in thefe
things,
ti1at
they
hecaq1e as a fecond Nature to
n1e;
tbe vvhich, as l alfo have with
fobernefs .
confidered fince, did fo ofiend the
Lord, that
even
in
myCh.ildhood he did fcare
and affright
me with fearful
Drean1s,
and did terrifie
me
. vv ith
dreadful Viflons. For
often..
after I had
. fpent ,th is and the other·
day
in fin, I have in
my
Bed
be~n
greatly
affiiB:ed,
w
bile afleep,
,with the apprehenfions
of
Devils and
wicKed
Spirits,
who frill, as
1
then thought laboured
to
draw
n1e away
with thenJ; of
which
I
could
11ever
be
rid.
6.
Alfo
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