I 4 ' G:·ace a!Jounding .. B'ut I thought this did not ,becon1e ~Religion neither, yet I forced n1y fclf, and would look on frill .: But quickly after, I began to think, Hori ifone of the Bti/J fiJohld fall? Then I chdfe to fl:and under a main Beatn, that lay over-· thwart the Steeple, from fide to fide, think– ing there I might i£and ~1re. But then I thould think again,Shoold the Bell fall with a fwing, it might firft ~it the wall, and then rebound– ing upon n1e, might kil11ne,for allthis Beam : This made me ftand,in the Steeple-doG>r; and ' DO\V,thought I, I am fafe enough;for if aBell fhould then fall, I can flip out behind thefe thick \Valls& fo be preferv'd notwithftanding. 34· So after this,I would y.et go t61ee them ring,but would not gofurther than theSteeple– door; but then it can1e into my Head, I-3ow if the Steeple it felf ihonld fall? And this ·thought (it may fall for onght I know) when I ftood , and looked on, did_continually fo fi1_ake my mind, that I durft not ftarid at the Steeple-door any longer,but was forced to flee,_ for fear the Steeple fhould fall .upo·n OJY Head. ~ . 35. Another-thtng was tny Da11Cllilg9I was a full Year before I could quite leave that;but all this w·hile, when I thought lkept this or that ComtnandnJent, or did,by word or deed, any thing that I thought were good, I had great Peace in n1y Confcience;and_Ihould think with rhy felf, God cannot chufe but be now pleas'd with me; yea, to relate it in 1ny own way,I thought no l\1an inEntrlandcould pleafe qod better than I. o 36. But
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