I to the Chief of SitJ;ters. · 9 f Even as Ef~u,who for one morfel ofmetft,fold his B£rthrifht: For you knr;w how that afterwards, when lv~ wot~ld have inherited the 'b(ejJing')he w~s rejeEfed, for he found no place · of r~pentance, thrJt~gh he fought tt carefully withTe.ars,Heb~ 12. 198. Now \Vas the Word of the Gofpel forced fron1 n1y Soul ·; fo that-no promife or encourage01ent was to be found in the Bible for me:And now would that faying work up– on my Spirit to affiicr me,Rejoyce,notO Ifrael, for joy AS otherPeople:Ho f. 9· I .For I faw indeed, therewas caufeofreJOYCiug for thofe that held to Jefus ; but as for me, I had cut my felf off ·by rny tranfgreffions, and left my felf neither · foot-bold,or h~nd;-hold, amongft all the frays and props in the Precious Word of Life. 1 99· And truly, I did now feel my felf~o fink into a gulf,1s an houfe whofe fot1ndation i-., deftroyed, I did liken n1y felt~ in this con– dition, uqto the cafe of fo1ne child that was fallen into a l\1ill-pit ; who, thongh it could make fotJle ·fhift to fcrabble and fpraw l..in the \Vater, yet beca~1fe it could find ·neither hokt for ha1id nor foot,ther·efore at ]aft it muftdie in that condition. So foon as this frefu affault had faftned on n1y Soul, that Scripture came into tny heart, This for many days, Dan. to. 14. And indeed, I found it was fo · for I cou~d not ?e delive_red,nor brought t~ p~pce .· agatn 7 until well· nigh two years and an half • were compleatly finifhed. Wherefore thefe– words, though in the1nfelves.,they tended to E ' Difcou..
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