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I
s6
.
Grace
A!Jo!Jitding
.
his
Gtace~
Somel:inles,
when 'I ..
have
been
comforted·,_ I
ha~e, ·
c.1!led
_my
felf a
·Fool
for
my
fo fink1ng
·-t1nd~r
trbuole.
··And
_then
· a–
gain when
1
have
bin
C3ft
down, rfhou'ght'I
was not wife to give fuch
way
to comfert.
With fitch ftrength-andi
weignt_
have·both
thefe been upon ·me.
·
.
·
3:
I have wond.red
m~ch a~.
this
on~ · thin~ .
that
though
G.od
doth
vtlit
my
Soul
:with
ne–
ver fo bleffed ·a difcovery of hitnfelf,
y~t
1
have found again, that V1ch
hours ·have
at–
tended me·
afterwards,
that
P··ha_ve
been
in..
mySpir.it fo filled
wit-h
darkne~,
·that...J
could
not fo
much~ as. onee, conce.i~e,
what
that
God~ .
and that comfort was·, with whic;h'l have been
refrefhed.
·
4· I
h~ve
fometimes
feen .··more
.in
a
Line ·
of .theBi.p-le,
thenlcould
·well~_ell
hQ.w to-ftand.
und-e.r.,
'and
yet
at
anoth~r,.
tim:e,
the·,:
whole
Bible hath
been
to
me
as
dry ,
as a ftick
·;or.,
rather
mrrJeart·
hath
been! .fo dead
and
dry
unto
.it,
that ·/
could
not
conceive the
leaft
dram of
'RefreOu_nept,
. thQ~
J
have
look't ·
it-:all
0\?fro . ., .
·
.
· .
· ..-
S· ~·
Of
a
If
fears~ ,they .-.are<
befi: that
are· mad.e~
by
the
Blood qf.Chrifr ; and
of~H
Jor,
that
H :
the~ f~·eeten.
that is
mixt
with-
m·ournt!lg_
over
Chrilf::
Oh:!.
·':tis.
!a·gopctly
thing
to·
l>e on our
~nees
_witl;l
CnriJJ: ..
i-n'
ou-r , A.r~s!) ~~efgr~-
__
Gq~
•.
·J ..
{lop~
1
~n.o.w
fon1ething
qf
thcfe
t_hin~s
• ·. ··
,.
6<. _··-J
~nd
to, tl:lis
day;
feveq
abon1Inayo11s
tn·
r
D?Y ..
,Hear~
;
1
.J!,1_cl.i11
ing ;
to.
.~·
Uq
belief.
2. ·