So · 1 Gr.~1ce abo:tncling ' in Prayer. This I did· 1 but with great difficut .. ty, God doth ,know; and that becaufe toge– ther 'wVith this, ftiH that faying about E(au v1ould be fet at rn y f):ea rt,even like a flaming . Sword.,to keep the \V?.Y ofthe Tree pf Life, lefr I fnonld tJ.fl:e thereof,a nd lj ~e. Oh! Who knows ho\V hard a thing I found it, to come to God ia Prayer. · .178.! did al[o defire thePrayers ofthePeo- · ple of God for 1ne,but I feared thatGod would give then1 no f-lea rt to do it; yea,.I trembled in 1ny Sour,to think,' that fome or other of thetn would flrortly tell me, that God hJd faid thofe vVords to thetn, that he once did , fay to the Prophet, concerning the Children of Jfrael 1 Pray tJOt for this People, for Thave · rejeEted them, Jer. i 1 • . I 4· So, Pray not jo1 him, for I ha·ve rejeHed Lim. Yea, .I thought that he · had whifpered this to fon1e 0f them already, only they durfl: not tell lne fo, neither durft . I ask them of it, for fear, ifit fhould be fo, it would make me quite befides tny felf: Man knows the beginnjng ~~L;. Sin (faid Splra) but who bounds the zjfues thereof. 179· Abont this ~ime 1took anopportunity to break n1y mind to an ancienrChriftian,a~d told him an lTIY CJ.fe: 1 told hitn alfo, that I was afraid that I had finned the fin againft the HolyGhofr; and he\old me, He thought fo too. Here therefore· I had but cold con1fort; but ·, talking a little more with hin1, I found him, tho~ a good Man, aStranger to muchCorn-
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