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12,
2,
Gract
A
/;uunding.
Jlut!l
be . with
tl1ee., whett thott dos1
le~v~
thiJ
World.
This did
fweetly
revive
my
fpirit,
and
help me to
hope in God ;
V.l
hi
eh
when
I
llad ·with
comfort
mufed
on
a
w·hile,
that
wor~
fell
with
great _weight upon
my
mind,
0 death, where is
thy
.ftinJ,
0
Gr~tve,
whete
is
·
thy
Piffory?
1
Cor
1
S·
55·
At
this
I
became
both well
in
body
and mind
at
once, fiJ r
my
ficknefs did prefently vanifh,and
I
walked
. (omforta
bly
in
my
\Vork
for
God
again.
262.
At aQother time, though jufr before,
I
w~~
pretty
well
and
favoury
~n
my Spiri1
. yet
fudclenly
there felJ
upon
n1e
a great
cloud
of
darknef~,
w
hi
eh did
fo
hide from
me
the
things of God
and Clirift,that
I was, as
if
1
. had never
feen
nor known
thern
in
n1y
life: I
was alfo fo over-run
in
PlY
Soul with
a
fenfe–
lefs, heartlefs
frame
of ·
Spirit,
that I could
not
feel
my
Soul
to
move
or
ftir
after
Grace
'
~nd
J.,ife
by
Chr~P;
I was as
if
my loyns
were
broken,
or,
as if
my
hands
a11d feet
had
been
tied or
bound
\Vith
Chains.
At
this
time nlfo
I
· felt
fome weaknefs tofeize
upon'
my
outwar.d
tna
n,
·
w
hi
eh rnade frill
the
other
afiH
~l·
on the
n1ore
heavy
~nd
uncon1fortable
to
me.
·
26
3
)0
After I had been in
this condition
fame three or four days,as;I was fitting
by
the
fire;
1fuddenly
felt
this
wora
to
found
in
my
Heart,/muft
go ta.]efus
at this
n1yformerDark-
11efs
and
Atheifn1
tied
away,
and
the
bleffcd
I
~ things
of
Ii~aveo
were
fet within
my
view.
\V
hi le I · was vn
this
fudden thus
overtaken
·-·
\
with