to the Chief of Sinners. · 19 I laboured to rebnke his wick~.dtiefs,be would laugh the more, & pretend· that he had gone through all Religions, and could never light on the right till now : He told mealfo,that in little time I fhould fee all Profeffors turn to the ways of theRanters,\\lherefore, abomina– ting thofe curfed Principies,I l~ft his Cornpa– ny forthwith, and became to him as great a Stranger as I had been before a ·Familiar. . ·- 45. Neither \Vas this Man only a temptation to me,but my CalLing lying in theCountry, I ·· happened to light into fevera-1 Peoples Corn- · pany; who,though ftricl: in Religion forrner– ly,yet were alfo fwept away by thefe Ranters~· · Thefe would alfo talk \Vitb me of theirWays, and condernn me as legal and dark,pretend– ing that they only had attained to ~erfecrion, that could do what they would, and not fin. Oh ! Thefe Temptations were fuitable tomy Flelh, I being put a young Man, and n1yNa– ture in its prime; but God,who had,as I hope, defign'd me for hetter things, kept me in the · fear of his Name, 2nd did not fuffer me to,ac– cept offuch curfed Principles. And bleffed be God, who put it into tnyheart to cry to him, to be kept and direCted,ftill diftrufring mine own wifdom ; . for I have fince feen even the ·effeCt: of that ·Prayer, in his preferving me not only fron1 Ranting Errors,but from thofe . alfo that have fprung up fince. TheBible \Vas precious to me in thofe days, · ..46. And now, me thought, I begaR to look · . B · · into
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