to the Chief of Sinnerr. I I; ful Eye,with great fear fnluefs,to turn over every Leaf, and with mUch diligence mixt with trembling,to· confider every Sentence, together with its natura! force and latitude. 249. By this ten1ptation alfo,I was great– ly holden off' my former foolifh pratl:ice, of putting by the word of pron1ife when it came into my n1ind; for now, though I couldnot .fuck th1t comfort .and · r~veetnefs from the Prornife, as·I had done at other times, yet, like to a: man fin~ihg, I fhould ca~ch at alll faw ; fQrmerly I thought I might not med– dle with the pr0mife,unlefs I felt itsco1nfort, bur now 'twas no time thu~ to do, the aven– ger of Blood too hardly did purfue me. - 1. 5 :). No~v therefore I was glad. to catch at tht:tt word, \Vhich yet I feared , l had no groundnor ' rig~t to own; ~nd eyen to leap into ·the bofom of that promife,th8t yet I fear'd did fhut its Heart againfi: n1e.Now alfo . I fbould labour to t }ke the word as ·God hath laid it down,without refl:raioing the natural force of one fyllable thereof; 0 what did I now fee in that bleff~d Gxth of ']ahn, And him that co"11es to me,! will in no wife cafl out! John 6. 30.t·; } W I oegan to ' confider ~· ith my felf, that God hath a ~ifger mouth t? fpeak with, than I had a peart to conceive with, I thr'nght alfo with n1y fc-lf,that he fpake not his words in hafte, or in an unadvifed heat~br:t "ith · infinite Wifdotn and Judgrnent,and in very truth ~ nd faithfuh1efs., '2. S;~m 3.18. F .
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