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Graci
alou11ding,
Difcourar;e1nent,
yet
to
rnc, who feared this
condition would be
~ternal,
tbey
were
4
'Jt
·fometin1es <:tU
h~lp
and refrefbment to me.
200.
For, thought
I,
1nany
day.r
are not
for
.ever,
rJtany
da)'S
vviH have an end ; therefore
feeing I was to beaffiicred,not a
few,
but
many
.
dttys,
yet
I was glad
it
was but
f~r ma~y
days.
Thus I fay, I .could
re-call
my fejf fometimes
and give
n1y
felf
an
help; for
as
foon
as
ever
the ·words carne
into
my
mind, at firfr,I
knew
my
trouble
would be long;
yet
this would
be
but fometimes, for I
~ould
not always
think
·t'>D
this,nor ever be
helped
by
it
,though
I
die.
20
1.Now
w
bile thefe
Scriptures
lay before
me,
and
laid fin
anew
at
my
door,
rhat
faying
in
.Luke
r
s·.
1.
with othG.rs, did encourage me
to prayer : Then
the
l"'emptet··
again
laid
at
me very fore ;
fuggefting,
That neither the
Mercy
ofGod,nor_:vet
the Blood
~fChr~{l-,didnot
at all
conce·rn
me,rtor cor-tld
they htlp
me for
r11y
fin;
therefore
it
was
zn 1./ain
to
pray.
Yet,
d1ought
1,
1 rvill p;·ay:
Bt~.t,[l'id
the
Tempter-Jour fin is
un·
•
p'araonable.Well,faid·I,I tl'ill
pray. Tis to
no
boot,
. faid
he.
Yes,
f1id
I,
I will pray.
So
I went to
prayer
to God ; ,
and
while I
was
at
prayer,
I
uttere>d
\<Vords
totbis
effecr;Lord
1
Satan
tells
me
thttt
nett
her
thy lv.fsrcy,nor-
Chrifl's Blo.od is
fuffi-;
t·ient
to·fave
m_y
Soul:Lord,jhall
I
honour
t~ee
moft,
~)
believing thou
wilt
a~ui
canft! or
him, ,by
be-–
lie'7Jing
thou 'Jje£ther wilt nor canj1?Lord, I
wottld
fain
honour · thee,~y
believing
thott
wilt and canfl.
~o2.And -as
I \:vas thus before
the-bord,that
Scripture
fa!lned
on
my
heai
t~[O
man great is