The· Preface. frefh~d therehj. (Temptations, when w meet them at fir/1 , 4re as the Lyon th.tt roareduponSam G n ; hut if we over· come them, the next time we .. ··.~ n, 1Ve foal/ find aNe{I Df Hone~witbi·n them) 1Jii Philiftines underftand me not• . It is [omething a~latirftz ofthe Work of God upon my Soul, even from the ruery firjf, till new, -wherein.youmayperceive myCtiflings doft'n,andmy RJfin£s up; for he .woundeth.and hisHands make whole. It is written in the Scripture, Ifa. 38. 19. Tl1e Father to the Children fhall make known the Truth of God. :rea, it was for this .Rea{on 1)1:_'1 fo long aJ Sinai (Lev. 4· to, 11.) to fee the Fire, a11d the Cloud, and the D.trkne{s, that I might fear the Lord all the days of my Life·upon Earth, and ten of his won· drous Works to my Children, Pfal. 78. 3, 4, ~· Mofes, Numb. 31· 1, 2. writ of the :four't1ey_ings of the Children of Ifrael, from Egypt, to the Lan4 of Canaln; •nd commanded alfo that they did remember tbeirforty rears Trarutl in the Wildernefs : Thou fhalt remember all the Ways which the·~Lord thy God leads thee thefe forty Years in the Wildernefs, to humble thee, and to prove– thee, and to know what was in thine Heart, whether thou wouldft keep his Commandments, oc no, Deut. i . 2, ~. ~Vh"cfore this I barue end~avoured ,to do; a;uJ. not ~mlj fo, nut to publiJb it aJfQ ; that if Godwill, others may he put in rtmemhrance of what he ha~b dtme for their Soulst it} reading his Work uprm. me. it is 1rojitable for Cbriftian! to becfcen ca.lling t~ mind fbe very Beginnint,s of Grace 'With tbeir Souls. It ' is a Night to be much obferved to -the Lord, for bringing them out from the Land of Egypt. This is that Night of the Lord to be obferved of an the Children of I[rael, in their GenertJtions,Exod. 1 2.42. MyGod, (aith David, Pfal 42. 6. My Soul iscaft down within me; but I re· - member theeJrom the Land of 5ordan; and of the Hermonites, from the Hill _Mi:rar. He reme1nbrea aljo the LJ011- and the Bear, when he went to figh' with the Giant of Gath, 1 Sam. l7· 36, 37• It was- Paul's tccuftomed manner, .ADs ~2. and that 'J'Jhen tritdJor his Life, Atls 24· even to open before hi1 :fudges the manner of his CCJnverJi•n: He would think o
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