. . to the ~hiefSinners. 57 thought I, th~t I ~~re ~9urfcore Years old now., thlilt I mtght diC'q?Ickly, that. n1ySoul might be gone to r~ft. ·. · _ 1 29. ;But before I had got thus far out of thefe rny1...emptations, I did gt\eatl ylong to fee fome ancient godlyMan's experience, who had wr it i:')Ine hundreds of years before I was born ; fo r tho(e who had writ in our days, I thought (bnt I de fi re them no"v t? pardon n1e) that they bad wr it only that ·wluch others felt; or elfe had,_through theltrcngth of their \1\li ts and Parts~ftudied to anfwrr filCh Obje– frion s as they percei v'd others were perplex– ed with, v:;ithout guirig dov,vn tbe1nfelves in– to the deep. · VleH, af~cr n1any fuch lonl;ings in n1y Mind, the God., · in vvhefe hand are all . ourDaysand\i\lays.,did cJfr into rny hand(one d ) B , . c ., { -~ , • l. \ ay a ~ 001{ or ./v~i~rt.tn J Ntner; It vvas _1IS ConJt~1enton theG :"l.::ttia'iJs; it ~lfo was foold, that it \Vas ready to fan piece from piece if I did but turn it t?Ver. Novv I was p1eafedn1uch, that fnch an ':.ld Book had fallen i~;.to rny .. hand .; the Vdlich'} when I had out a little . vvaypen#fed, I found n1y condition, in hisex– perience, fo largely and profoundly handled, as if hiS Book had been written . out of 1ny 1 '""""~ . 1 1 c l . eart. J tHS 1naue rr:e tnarve : 10r t 1us tho'ught 1, 1'J;is A-fan could not lznow . any thing of ths · ftate of Chrijl':~n.s nom, but muft needs 1vriteand . fpttlk the experience of fermer days. , I30 .. Befide·s, he ~oth n1oft gravely alfo in ··th~~ p~ok, 4~~~F.~ 9!. H~~ !·~[~ ?f ~hefe terr;pta– tatloDs · · . '
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