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him,nor whether there was fuch a one, or no.
Thus Man, while blind,doth wander,bttt wearieth
him
{elf
with
r
anity,
for
he knoweth tfot the
way
to the
Ct"ty
of God,
Eccl.
I
o.
1
5·
1
2<9.
But one day (among
all
the Sermons
our
Parfon made) his SubjeCt: was,to treat of
the Sabbath
day,
arid
of
the Evil of breaking
that,either'with
Labour~Sports,or
otherwife:
(now
I was,notwithftanding myReligion,one
that took much delight
in
all manner ofVice,
and efpecially that- was the day that I did fo–
lace
my
felf therewith.) Wherefore I fell iu
my
Confciente under his Sermon; thinking
and believing that he made
tha~
Sermon on
purpofe to fuew
tne
n1y
evil-doing. And at
that time I
felt
w·hat guile was, though never
before, that I can remember ; but then I was,..
for
the prefent,greatly loaden therewith,and
fo went home when the Serma\1 was
end~d,
with a great burthen on
my
Spirit.
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This, for that infrant, did
b~num
the
Sinews of
my
)?eft Delights, and did irnbitter
my
former Pleafures to· n1e ': But hold,
it
lafted not,
for
before I
ha~
\ve)l
dined, the
Trouble began to go.
off
my
Mtn-d,--- and
my
Heart returned
to
its
old
Courfe : But Oh!
Ho\v glad
was
I, that this Trouble was gone
from n1e,
&
that the Fire was put out, that I
n1ight Sin again \Vithout controuU-Wherefore,
when I had fatisfied Nature
witr1 my
Food, I
fhook the Sermon out of
my
Mind,and to
my
old Cufl:om of Sports
and Gaming
I returned
with great Delight.
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