1730. MR THOMAOSTON. 387 no time in want of ftrength. In ure. But as he afterward. accomplifhed. While at the table 731, `ú; (hallf7:11 add difiributed, I was thereby helped to Ten par raphs.] únion with Jelús Chrift. Monday morning IL., ts`.gre pmforted by a good woman, whofe hufband having ,teen feized with a fit of difirabtion, had, on that account, been remembered, in the public prayers at the communion in Galafhiels the preceding year. She had then and there fpoke to me on that cafe : and DOW the told Inc. that having advi(éd her to roll the cafe over on the Lord, the was helped fo to do ; and when the went home, found him reftored to his found mind ; which deliverance has continued all along finte. The good woman was concerned to be advifed how to improve filch a mercy. On Wednefday we carne to Galafhiels, where awaking out of fleep that night, I found myfelf at the gates of death, by a ficknefs that had fud- denly feized me. Providence feafönably awoke Mr Murray, to whom I could hardly fpeak at all, to call for help ; which I re- ceived by vomiting ; being fill' in hazard of fainting away, ef- pecially when fitting up, and more efpecially when on my knees, as in my younger years ; infomuch that at fecret prayer on the Thurfday morning I durft not kneel, but fit. Thus the fameGod who tried my brethren before the folemn work, took trial of me after it was over. It feems to have been owing to my eating of a pear and a half at fupper, which by their coldnefs had oppref. fed me. We came fafe home at night ; and on the morrow, convoying Mr Murray, the length of Portburn, I propofed to him to take that part of the catechifm to explain which fell, as above fiiid, to Mr Davidfon, now reduced to.a pitch of weak- , net's, if fo be that work, as above propofed, might yet not be marred and he has taken it-into his confìderation, being re- folved to feek counfel of the Lord concerning it... At Maxton I thought I would get the long- expected word at length ; but there was none for me, only, I heard, that Mr G. is fomewhat embarraffed in his private affairs at London. Mean while, on the Monday, there arofe in my heart an inclination, to publifh the treatife on the covenant ofgrace ; the which, I believe, was, partly owing to the intereft I found I had, beyond what I could have expetded, with minifiers ; and would fain improve- to codification, and 'advancing of the intereft of the truth of the gofpel. I had this fummer put the copy in the hand of my friend Mr Wilfon ; who having revifed a part of it, and put it in the hand of Mr Davidfon, it was by a miftake returned to me about the middle of Auguft. Wherefore at this time I carried it back to Maxton, to be reviled thropghout. On the Sabbath after I carne home, being the 18th, I received a letter, bearing, that as yet there was no word to rue from London. Thus I find myfelf obliged to (hut up this account of my life, without being capable to thew the iflhe, and pretent ftate of that affair, either at Aberdeen or London. But I do believe; 3 B6
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