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If.lt :.;
· ·
·Glace
A!JounJing·;
~
·
that
fayiog
;·The
H{)(Y
Gh~ft
witnejfeth
in
ti'Jery
City~t, ha~
-Bonds
and
.AJJliEtions abide me;
I 'have
verily·thouglH,rhat
n,y
Sou~
and,it,have
fom.e.~
thnes
reafoned about the fore and fad. efrateo.f
aBanifhed
andExiled
Condition.,
ho\t\7. they.·ate
expofed to Hunger, to
·co.ld;,
to· Perils,:.. . to
Nakednefs, to
En.emies··;·
and~
a
thoufand ..
Ca.. .
-Ia·initi.J~;
arid at Jaft
it
·-1~nay
be to die
.in
aOitch
.Jike a poor forlorn and
defolate
~heep.-
Elut.I"
· thank .God
hitherto
I
have not .,
been
n1oved
·by
thefe mo!l: delicate ·reafi)fiings., but have
f:i-th·er
by ·
then1
lTIOre~
approved
UUY,
rJe.irt
tO".
God. ··, ;
· , ·
.
· ·:
,
·
3
34•·,
I will;tel/. you.1
ofa
prety ~ bujiri"efs;
l was
~ one·:
above
a/l .
the.
Ptft-,·
in a
very
fad
arid.
low:·.
, -
CondiriolJ
for
many:·. JVe'eks,
a't
;·which
tirtie·
aLJo
,;
1
being
but
a·yo:-tng
,Pr~ifoner.; ~nd
·not
-~acquainted' ·
with•the
Law:r·;
had
thi.s
lay -much
upon
my.
Spirit; ·
·
thrtt
my
Imprifonin·ent m:gh:t en
cl
at .the Gallows ·
for
oug~t -
that
I.
could.~
tell; :n-o-w.
ther~forc
S.atan )
·
lay
hard :
at :rnc
to
·bear
-me
·CUt
.,i()f·.
heart,
by.
·fitggej/i11g.fht/s
Jfn(o
me,
.~
But
howJf
when we :
come
indeed to
dte,yo~tt.Jhovtldbe·in this~ Co.ndi~ion ·; ~h,4t
·
ir.,
as
n'Ot' io
fov(}ttr:,.the things
·of GfJd,
nor
ro .have
v.tJy.;E1Jidence
upcm
yot-tr ·Soul'for
4
better
flate
here–
ajter? (jorJndeed
t~t
that time', all the ·
things
_of .
Godwere
hid
from
my
Soul•. )
, .
·
3
35~
Wherefore
:-when
l
at
ftrft
beg
an
to
thin~
J
•
.
ofthis
it
was ·of a
·great ·.troftble
·t·o me ·: for I
: thought with .my
{elf, :
that .in the
Crfndition,' l
·norrtwas in
1
I
was
not
fir
to die,
neither
in~eed
di4
·
think
.I
C9JIId
,if
I
jhqH/dt
be.
_ ,~&/led.
to ,;it
~
BcfiqeJ,
.
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