i4 Grace abounding fepara~ion between the Chriftians and the World;and the Gap which was in this Wall, I thought t\'as jefi1sChrifr, wh~ is the way to God the Father,Job.r4.6.Mat.7.14.But foraf. n1uch as the Paifage Wa$ wonderful narrow, . even fo narrow.; that I could not but with great difficulty enter in thereat,it lhewed me, ~h,at none could enter intoLife, but thofe that were in down-rig~t earneft, and unlefs alfo they left this wicked Wqrld oePZnd them; for here was only roon1 f~r Boc:y and Soul, but not for Body and Soul and/ Sin. . . 56. This refenJblance abode upon n1y Spi– rit n1any days; all which ·time I fawmy felf ·. in a .-forlorn and fad Condition, but yet was provoked to a vehement hunger and defire -to be one of that number that did fit in the Sun-fhine ~· Now alfo I fuould pray where.. ever I was; whether at home, or abroad ; in 11oufe-, or field ; and fl1ould alfo often,- with lifting up of heart, fing that of the fifty firft Pfal. o· Lord:,. confider my diftrefl ; for as yet. knew I not where I was. 57· Neither as yet .c::ould I attain· to any comfortable perfwafion that I had Faith in - .. t:hrift_; but inftead of having fatisfaB:ion , ·11ere I began to find n1y Soul to be affaulted with ~relh· do~bts about m}(future happinefs; refpec1al1y With fuch as tnefe, Whethtr I was EleEle4 : But how if the Day gfGrace Jhould naw be paft andgone ?· _ · . s·8. By. th~fe two_Temptations I was verhy ~ uc , m
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