. to the Chief of S,inners~ ·45· ly:Ghoft, then ~yould the!empter fo prqv~ke n1e to d.efire to fin that Stn, that I wa s~.as 1f I cou1Gl not, tnilft not, neither fuould bequiet until I had cornn1itted it : Now, no Sin would - ferve but that: if it were to ~e committed by fpeakingof fuch a Word, t hen Ithavebeen as if my l\1outh would have fpoken that Word whether I would or no. And in fo ftrong a -Meafure \Vas this Tetnptation upon'n1e, that ·· often I have been ready to clap my Hand un– der rny Chin, to hold my Mouth from open– ing ; and to that end alfo I have had thoughts at other times, to leap with my Head do·wn– ward into fome Muck-hill-hole pr other, to keep my 'l\1outh from fpeaking. · . 1 o4..No~wagain I beheld the condition of the Dog and Toad,and counted theeftate ofeve– ry ·thing that God had made, far bett~r than thh dreadful ftate of mine, and fuch as my Companions was: Yea, gladlywould I have been in the condition of a Dog or I-Jorfe, for I knevv they had no Soul to perifh under the everlafiing W. eight ,offleU, or Sin, as mine was like to do. Nay, and tho' I faw this, felt this, and was broken to pieces with it, ye t that which added to my Sorrow was, tha t I could not find, that y.,\ith all InySoul I did d-e– fi re deliverance. That Scripture alfodid tear/ · and rend my Soul, in the n1id11 of thefe Di-... frra ttions, The Wicked n,re like the t r oublea s~lt n1 hich cannot rtff , whoft 'f/Ji'atcrs r~ft up- Mt'r; ~ and Dirt: .There is no cace .to th.cWickea 1 faitb
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