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the
C.hief
of
Sin1:ers.
I;
36.But,poor Wretch as I was,I was
a1l
this
whil~
ignorant
of
Jefus Chrifr,& going
2!
bout
· to
eftabliih my
own
Rtghteoufnefs;
and
had
perilhed therein,bad
not God in mercy fhew–
ed me
more
of
my
State
by
Nature.
37·
But upon a
day,the
good Providence of
God did caft me· to
Bedford,
to \York
on
my
·Calling ; and-
in
one of the
Streets of
that
Turvn,
I came where
there
were three or four
poor
Women
fitting·
at
a
Door,in the
Snn>talk..
, ·
ing
about
the things of God; and
being now
Vyil]ing to
hear them difcourfe,
f
drew near
to
hear what they
faid,for
I was ,now a brisk
Talker alfo
my
felf, in the n1atters
ofReligi ..
·on. But I may
fay,J
heard,but I Jtnderjlood not;
for
they
were far
above,
out of
my
rea
eh ;
Their Talk was
about
a new Birth,
the
work
of
God
on
their hearts, alfo how
t'hey
were
convinced of their
miferable
ftate
by
nature;
they talked
how ·God had vifited their Souls
with his love in
t~e
Lord
1efus,and
with
what
'.'Vqrds and
promifes they
had been
'refrelhed,
comforted and fupported
a~ainft
the tempta- .
tions of
the Devil :_
Moreover,they reafoned
of the
Suggefiions
and
.Temptations
of
Satan.
.in particular;and told to each other,
by
w
hieh
,
th~y
had been
afflicted,
an~
how they
were
born up
under
hi~
affaults.
They
alfo
difct>urf–
ed oftheir own
wretchednefs
ofheart,oftheir
. Unbelief; and
did
contemn,fli ght
and
abhor
their
own
Righteoufnefs,
as
filthy
and
inibf..
/
ficient to_ qo
th~m
any
good!
·