- tti the·Chief (if Si#nerr;·~' - 7i itbronght light with it, and commanded a filence in mv heart of all thofe tumultaous thoughtsthat beforedid ufeJike tnafterlefsHell bounds,to roar and bellow, and make a hide– ous npife withinme. It fhewed me alfo, that 1efus Chrift had.yet aWord ofGrace andMercy for me,tha.t he had not, as I had feared, quite forfaken and caft offIny Soul; yea,this was a kind of a Chide7for n1y pronenefs to Defpe.. rttion ; a kind of a threatning me, if I did not, , notwithftanding my fins, aad the heinoufnefs of then1, venture n1y Salvation upon the Son of God. But as to n1y deterrnini'ng about this ftrange Difpenfation, what it was, I kne\V not ; or from w·hence it came, I know· not; I have not yet in twenty years time been able to rr1ake a J ndgm~nt of it: '[thought then n)hat here I Jhdll be loth to [peak . . ·. J?ot verily, that fudden ruf11ing Wind w'as as if an Angel had come upon rne, but both it and the Salvatiou I willleave ·until. the Dayo£ judgn1ent;·on1y this I fay_, ' it :con1manded a great calrn in rny Soul, 'it perfwaded n1e there tnight be·Hope : · It·fhewed rile; ~sI . th0ught, -what_ .t he Sin un– pardonable was ., a11d that tny Soul had yet -~ the bleffed Privilege to flee toJefns Chrift for l\1e.rcy. · But I fay, concer.ni,ng this Difpen- - fatton I know 'not \-V hat yet to [Jy unto it ; ·1 which was alfo, i'n truth" · .the canfe that at \ .f1rft' I did not fp:eak. of it' in·the Book; I do' · 110\N alfo le1V~ 'It to be thought on oy f\1cn of found J udgn~eqt.~ : I. lay not -~he llrefs .ofp1y · · - Sal.. ~
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