84 ·Grace aboundl11g nJl Life. So that the ground of all thefe fears of mirie, did ari[e frotn a ftedfaft Belief that I h~d of the ftability of the Holy Word of God; and alfo frori1 tny being niif-informed of the nature ofmy fin. 1 34. But, Oh t I-fow this would add tomy Affiiction,to conceit ·that I fhould be guiltyof fuch a firi, for which he did not die. Thefe thoughts \Vould fo confound me, and impri– fon me,and tie me up frotn faith,that I knew not ·what to do: But, Oh! thought I, th1t he \Vould con1e down again! Oh,that the Work of rJa~ "s Red emption was yet to be done by . Chrift? .How would 1pray him, and intreat l1in1 to count and reckon tbis fin amopgft the reil: for which he died? But this Scripture· would fh .. ke me down as dead ; Chrifl being raifed.f-orn the dead, dieth no more: De~Zth bath no mor~ ,dotniniort over him, Ron1.6.9. I 85.Thus 'by the.ftrang'eand:unufuala/Jaults of the Temp·cer, was 1ny Soul like a broken Vefrel,driven as \Vith the Winds, and to!fed fometimes headlong into De(pair ;· · fame– times upon theCovcn.ant of Works,and fome· times to wifh that the newCovenant and the conditions thereof U)ighf fo far forth as l; thought n1y felfconcerned, be turn'd another Way,andchang'd. Bttt in all thefe, I was buttts tho(e that joftleagainfl the Rocks; mo~t bro,ken, · · fcattere,d and rent. Oh,the unthought of ima– ginations, frights, fears and t~rr~rs, that ~re affeEted by a thorough applicat1pn of_gntlt,
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