. to the Chief of Sinners: . i were therein contained ; and efpecial1y, the Prieft andClerkmoft happy,&without doubt, greatly blefs'd,becaJ.lfe ~hey were theServants, as I then thought ot God; and were Principal in the holy Ten1ple, to dohis Worktherein. 17.This Concei(grewro ftrong, in a little time,uponmySpirit,thathad Ibut feen aPrieft (though never fo fordid11nd debauched in his~ Life) Llhould find mySpirit fall u1ader him,re– verence him, ·&kneel unto him;yea,i thougl1t ' for the Love I did bear unto them (fuppofing they were the Minifters of God) I could have · lain down at their feet, &hav.e been trampled upon by them ; their Name; their Garb and - Work did fo intoxicate and hewitch me. 1 8. After I had qeen thus for feme confide.; rable time,anotherThought came inmyMind; · . and that was,whethe,r we were of thelf~Zelites.; \ or no?For finding in the Scripture~, that they were once thepeculiar PeopleofGod.,thought I,ifl wereonce ofthisRace,mySoultnufl: needs behappy.No'Wagain, Ifound within me agreat ·· longing tobe refolved about this Queftio~,but could not tell how I 1hould : At laft, I asked , n1yFather ofit; who toldme, No, we were not. : Wherefore then 1 fell in rriy Spirit, as to the .hopes of that, and ~ fo remained. 1 9· But all this while, I was not fenfible of 1 the danger and evil of fin ; I was':Kept from confidering that fin would damn me, what - Religion foever I followed, unlefs I was . found i~ Chrift ~ ~ay, I ~~!e~ ~h~u~hh~ of (, .· 1m 7 } .
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