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Gr,zce
{lboundin.~
mtnt
~f
his Porrer·, pra}fe hint for hi
J
mighty
.AflJ,
Pra~(e
hirn
according
to t;is
excd!tnt
1
GrevttnefJ.,
Pf.tl.
I )0.
I,
2.
237
HJvir1g
thus
in
fev
words
given
you
.a
tafl:e of the forrow and affliction
that
my
Soul went under,by
tl1e
guilt and terror
that
this
tny
wicked thought did
lay
me
under;
and having' given
you
alfo a
to-nd1
of
my
de–
li veranee therefrom, and of the fweet and
hleffe,d,
con1fortthat
I
tnet
\viqJ-
afterwards, ·
(which
colnfort
dwelt about tWelve
nw'i1tbs
\vith
tny
Heart,' to
my
unfpeak,al~dmira.
.
tion)
I will
now (God
.willing)
before I
pro..
ceed
any
fnrther, .give
you
in
a
word
or
two,_
What, as I
coltceive,
was the caufe
of tliis,.
temptatioil ;
and
alfo
after -
tnat,
whatad:.
. vantage at the lafl:
it
became
un~o
my
Soul. .
238.For
the
cau~s,
I conceived
they
w,ere
principally
two;
which
two alfo I was deep·
ly convinced
all
the ·time this
troublelay up·
.on 'me. The firft was for
that
I did
not,
w·hen.
· I
·~a)
delivered from the
temptation-
tQlt
\Ve;i-lt
before,fti.{l
pray
to God to
luep ·me-from.
'tcrnptatio"
tht~t
were to -co:rn,e;
for
though, as·l
can
C-1y
in
trinh,
my
Soul was mgch ia Pray·
~
er before
this
Tryal fcized tne.
Yet
then I
J}rayed
on.ly,-
or at the
mofr,
principally,
for
the renloVJl
of
prefent troubles,
arid
for frefh
d
ifc0veri es of
his love in Ch r,ift;
which
I
f1
w
afterward.s was not
enongh
to
do; I
alfo
~ould
have prayed)
that the
great God
would
keep
n1e frGm
the evil that was to come.
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