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 mydelight 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. peciallyconfideringmyYears~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 inmyCh.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, wbile afleep, ,with the apprehenfions ofDevils 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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