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Grace aboundbtg
38.And
methonght
they
fpake,a~
if Joy
did
make them fpeak; they fpake with fuch plea-
fantnefs ofScripture-language,and with
fuch
appearance ofGrace in all they
faid,that
they
were to me,as
if
they had found a newWorld,
as
if
they
were
people that dwelt alone., and were
net
to be reckoned among{l their 1'-leighbours,
Numb.
23.
9·
.
.
-
· ' 39!
At this I
felt my
own
Hea~t
began to
fhake,
&
tniftruft flilY
Condition
to be
naugh~
;
for I
fa~v.,that
in all
my
thought?
about Reli.
gion and
Salvation,
the
new
Birth
did
never
eater into myMind,neither knew I
the
Com–
fort
of the
Word
and
Pron1ife, nor·the
D~ceitfulnefs and Treachery
of
n1y
own wicked
Heart. As for fecret Thoughts,I took no no–
tice
of them ; neither did I underfta11d what
Sata:ns Temptations were,nor how they were
to
be.
withftood
and
refifted,
&c.
4o.Thus
thcr~fore
when I had heard
&
con–
fider'd what they faid, I
left
them, and went
about
n1y
Employtnent
again, but their Talk
and
Difcourfe went with me ; alfo
my
Hear~
would tarry with them,
for
I was greatly af·
fetted with their words,both becaufe
by
them
I was convinc'd that Iwanted,the trueTokens
of a
truly
godlyMan,and alfo becaufe
by
them
I
was
convinc~d
of the
happy
& bleffed Con·
dition of him that was fuch an one.
4'1.
Therefore I
fuould
oftel\
make it
my
bufinefs to be going again and again into the
Com,LJa~y o~
thefe
poor ,People,
~or
I
could