to the Chief of Sinners. 37 datnning. Were my foul but in a good con– dition, aad were I but fut:e of it,-ah, how rich Jhou]d I ef:teetn my felf, though bleft , but with Bread and Water : I Ihould count thofe but fmall Afflictions, and fhould bear them as little burthens; .Awounded_Spirit, who can bear ? _ 27. And though I was thus troubled, and toffed, and afflicted with the fight., and fenfe, and terror of my own wickednefs, yetJ was a(raid to let this fenfe and fight go quite off . my mind ; for I found, that unlefs guilt of Confcience was taken off the right way, that is, by the Blood of Chrift, a Man grew ra– ther worfe for the 1ofs ofhis trouble ofMind than better. Wherefore, if tny_ guilt lay hard . upon me, then I lhould cry'tha~ the Bloqd of .Chrift 1 might take it off: And ifit was going off without it (for the fenfe of Sin would be · fometin1es as if it would die,and go quite a- . v1ay) then I wouldalfo ftrive tofetch it upon my heart again, by bringing the punifhment for fin in ~ell-fire upon mySpirit;and Ibould cry, - Lord let it not go off my Heart, but 1 the right way, but by the'Blood ofChrift, andby the application of.thy mercy, through him to mySoul .; for that Scr:1pture lay n1uch upon m·e, roith– ,out {hedding of Blood thert is no remij]ion, H.eb. 9· 22. And that which made me the more· afraid ~fthis, was, becaufe I had feen fome,. __who, though when they were under wounds of ~onfciert~e, would cry and pray; yet · . , _· - . feektpg
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