to the Chief of Sil·tners. 85 ·yielded to Defperation! This is the Ma11 that hath his dwelling among the tombs, with thf dead, that i.r alwayscrying out and cutting him[elf ~;th flcnes, 1\!ar. 5: 2, 3. · But I fay~,al'l In vain .i . Defperauon will not comfort h1n1, the Old 'Covenant will not fave him: Nay, Heaven and Earth fl1al1 pafs ~way before 'one jot or title of the Word and Law of Grace lhall fall, . or be removed. This )I favv, this I felt, and , under this I groaned ; yet this Ad vantage I , got thereby, nan1ely, a farther Confirmation ofthe certainty of theWay ofSalvation, and that theScriptures were theWord ofGod.Oh! I cannot now exprefs what then lfaw ~nd felt . qfthe fteadinfs of Jefus ~hrifi, the Rock of ·Man's Salvation : What was done,could not be undone, added to, nor altere~. I faw, in– d.eed , that Sin might drive-the Soul beyo.pd ·Chrifr, even the Sin which is unpardon'abl~; but woe to him that was fo driven, for the Word would fhut hin1 out. 186. Thus was 1 always finking, whatever . I d_id thin~ or do. So one Day I walke~ to a ne1ghbounng Town, and fet down uppn a Settle in the Street, and fell intoa very qeep Paufe about the·moft fee1rful ftate n1y. fiz{ had ' brought h1e to; and after long mu fing, I lif– ted upn1yHead,but methought I faw as if the Sun that fhineth in the ,Heavensdid grudge to– give light, and as if the very frones in the Street, and Tiles ·upon the Houfes, did bend themfelv·es againft ID'e i n1ethought that they all
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