to the Chief of Sinn~rs8r bat with the Devil.Wherefore ~ ¥:ent toO.od again as well as I could, for Mercy flill. , 1 8~. _Now alfo did the _Tempter begin. tc) m0ck me in rny mifery, faying, That fteing I had thus par-ted with the Lord Jefos, and provo– ked him to difpleafore, .who tvoultJ have flood be-.. tween my Soul and the flame of devouring Fi-re, there was n01v but one n,ay, ~tnrl that was, to pray that God the Father would be the Mediator betwixt ·his Son and me,that we might be recon– ciled a(Jain,~tnd th~tt I mitht have that ble./Jed be– nefit il~ him that his bleffidSaints-enjoyed. I 81 .Then did thatScripture feize upon my Soul, He it ofQne mind, and who can turn hirn? Oh! I faw 'twas as eafie to perfwade him to make a newWorld, anew Covenant, or new - ' Bible befides that we have already,as to pray for foch a thing. This was to perfwade hin1, that what he had done alread.y"·as meer folly; and to rerfuade with him to alter, yea, to dif– annul thewhole wayof Salvation : And then .would that faying rent n1y Soul afunder, Nei– ther is there Sal~ation in any other ; for there~ none other name under Heaven, given amonoff men, 1vhereby 'W1 muff be faved, At!. 4· I 2. 6 ' . I 82. No\v ~he moft free, and full, and gra– Clous\Vords tn t~e Gofpel were rhe greateft torment,to n1e : y~a notl1ing fo afflicted me as the Thoughtsof jefusChrifr, the remem- ,brance of a Saviour; becanfe I had caft him oft~ brought forth .the Vil1any of my fin, and · my lof~ by it) .tom1nd n~thing did twingemy Confcience
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