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4
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G:·ace
a!Jounding
.. B'ut
I thought this did
not
,becon1e
~Religion
neither,
yet
I forced
n1y
fclf, and would look
on
frill .:
But
quickly
after,
I
began
to
think,
Hori
if
one of
the
Bti/J fiJohld
fall?
Then I
chdfe
to
fl:and
under
a
main
Beatn,
that
lay
over-·
thwart the
Steeple, from
fide
to
fide, think–
ing there I might i£and
~1re.
But then I
thould
think
again,Shoold
the
Bell
fall with
a fwing,
it
might firft
~it
the wall, and then rebound–
ing
upon n1e,
might
kil11ne,for
allthis Beam :
This made me ftand,in the Steeple-doG>r; and
' DO\V
,thought
I, I
am
fafe enough;for
if
a
Bell
fhould then fall, I
can
flip
out
behind thefe
thick
\Valls&
fo
be preferv'd notwithftanding.
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So after
this,I
would y.et go
t61ee
them
ring,but
would not go
further
than
the
Steeple–
door;
but then
it
can1e
into
my
Head, I-3ow if
the
Steeple
it
felf
ihonld fall?
And
this ·thought
(it
may
fall for
onght
I know) when I ftood
, and looked on, did_continually fo
fi1_ake
my
mind,
that
I durft not ftarid at the
Steeple-door
any longer,but
was
forced to
flee,_
for
fear
the
Steeple
fhould fall .upo·n OJY Head.
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.
3
5. Another-thtng was
tny
Da11Cllilg9I was
a full Year before I could quite leave
that;
but
all
this
w·hile,
when
I thought lkept
this
or
that
ComtnandnJent, or
did,by
word
or
deed,
any thing
that I thought
were
good, I
had
great Peace in
n1y
Confcience;and_Ihould
think
with
rhy
felf, God cannot chufe but be now
pleas'd
with me; yea, to relate
it
in
1ny
own
way,I
thought
no l\1an
inEntrland
could pleafe
qod better
than
I.
o
36.
But