1700. MR THOMAS BOSTON. 129 open on the table before me, and met with that word, If. xL 27. " Why fayeft thou, O Jacob, and- fpeakeít, O'Ifiael, My way " is hid from the Lord; and my judgment is gaffed over from my " God ?" and finding it fo fpeaking, I read on to the end of the chapter, where all was moft feafonable, and fuited to my cafe. So I went away immediately to the. Lord with it, cried to him, and got ftrength to believe, that feeing I waited on God, my ftrength íhould be renewed. , July, 17. I came yetterday to Barhill in the ftrength of the Lord, leaning on that promif'e, If. xi. ult. " They that wait u- " pon the Lord (hall renew their ftrength : they (hall mount up " with wings as eagles, they thall run and not be . weary ; and " they thall walk and not be faint ;" and that was all I had. This day in the afternoon I withdrew from company, and fbught the Lord in fecret : and afterwards, before the minu ter came, I went to prayer with the family and relations prefent, particularly for the Lord's bleffing with refpeá to the marriage ; and was much helped of the Lord. Mr Mair having come, went alone into a room, and Raid fome time ; and I went into another alone, and fpent the time in prayer : and then the Lord was kind to my foul ; he drew near to me, and faid tome, Fear not ; and I came forth in the ftrength of the Lord. The aéuion was gone about moil fweetly by Mr Mair. The Lord direáted him to molt fea- fonable and pertinent exhortations, and they carne with power and life. Of a truth God owned it, and it was fweet both to him and us. As for my part; my heart being touched with the' fin. ger of God, was fenfibly going forth in love to Chrilt, and admi- ration of him; to my great comfort and fatisfaétion. So we were married betwixt eight and nine o'clock at night. Immediately- after I withdrew into the room where I was before, and went to God, (it was the upper wettern room), and there the Lord filled my heart with joy in himfelf unfpeakable, and loaded me with loving-kindnefs, truth, and faithfulnefs. Verily he made me re new my, ftrength, and gave it me with palpable increafe. Verily the Lord did great things for me at that jundture as ever ; and my foul was made to rejoice in hirn. Thus was I by all-wife Providence yoked with my wife, with whom I have now, [1730], by the mercy of God, lived thirty years complete: A woman of great worth, whom I/therefore paffionately loved, and inwardly honoured A ftately, beautiful, and comely perfonage, truly pious, and fearing the Lord ; of an evenly temper, patient in our common tribulations, and under her perfonal diftretles : A woman of bright natural parts, an uncom- mon ftock of prudence ; of a quick and lively appreherdion, in things the applied herfelf to; great prefence of mind in furprifing- incidents ; fagacious and acute in difcerning the qualities of ¡er- fons, and therefore not eafily impofed upon ; model}, and grave in her' deportment, but naturally chearful ; wife and affable in converfation, having a good faculty at fpeaking, and expreffing
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