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I
never
faw thofe heights and
depths
i'n Grace and Love,
and ·Mercy,
as
I
faw
af–
ter this ten1ptation! Great Sins do draw out
great Grace; and where guilt is moft terri–
ble and fierce,where the Mercy of God
in
Chrift, when
fhewe~
to tbe Soul,
aP.pears _
tnoft
high
and
mighty;
when
Job
had
paired
through his Captivity
,he
had
twice as much
as
he had_bcfore,job
42.1
o.Bleffed beGodfor ]efus
Chrifr our
Lord. I\1any
other things I
might
J1ere make obfet vation of, but I would . be
brief, and therefore
fiuJl
at this thne omit
th(m, and do pray God, -
t hat
my banns
may
n1ake
others
fear
to offend, leaft they
al-
fo be made to bear the Iron Yoke as I did.
.
.
I had two or three times, at or about
my
deliverance frotn
thi~
ten1ptation,firch
ftr~nge
apprehenfions of
the
Grace
of
God, that
I
could
hardly
bear
up 'under
it,
it
was
fo
out
~f
rneafurc
amaz.ing,when I
thought
it
could
reach tne, that .I do
think,
if
that
fenfe of
it
- had
abode long upon
me,it would
have
1nade
. me
unca~a·ble
for
bufine(~.
2) ·4·
Now I fhall go
forward
to give you
a relation of other of the Lords dealings with.
me, at
fundry
other
feafons.,
and of
the
ten1ptations I then did· meet
withal.
I Chall be–
gin with what I· met with vvhen
J,
firft did
joyn in fellow
!hip
with the
~eople
of God in
Bedford.
After I had propounded to the
Church,
that
my
defire
was
to wall< in the Or–
der and Ordinances ofChr ift with
t'hem,and
,
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wa:s