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2t2,.
.-Grare abounding
·
urging thofe
~c_riptures
that fee
m
to
look that
way,.for
the infQrcing
aJid
ftrengthning
his
Temptation.
Nay,
one day,as
I
wa.s
betwixt
Elftorv
and
Bedford,
the
Ten1ptation
was
hot
upon
n1e,to
try
-if
I
had
Faith,
by
doing
feme
Miracle;
which Miracle,at that time,was thL;
I
mufl:
fay
to
the
Puddles.
that
:were in tbe
·
Horfe~pads,
Be
dry;
and
to the
·dry
place, Be
you
the Puddles:
And trul y,o11e time I was gc- .
ing
to fay
fo indeed ; bu t juft .as I
\Vas.
about
to
fpeak, this thought
ca1ne
into
·my
(nind;
But go
under yonder
Hedge, and
pray
firft, that
Godwould make you able:
But when I had con–
cluded to pray, this came hot upon
me;
That
if
I prayed,and
can1e
ag~in,and
tried
to do
it,
and
yet
did nothing notwithftanQing, then
befure I had no Faith, but was a Caft-away,
and
loft. Nay,thought I,
if
it
be fo, 1will not
try
yet,
but
'W
il111ay
a
little
longer.
52.
So I
con~inued
at a great
lofs;
for
l
thought)
if
they
only
h~d
Faith,
w
hieh
could
do
fo
wonderful things,
th en
I
concluded
that for
the prefent I neither had it
>nor
yet
for
time
to
comev:ere
ever
like
to
have
it.'Thus I .
was
toffed betwixt the Devil and
n1y
own Ig–
norance,and fo IJerplexed,
efpecially
at fome
~m~s,~hat
I
could
not
t~11
what
to
do.
.
5
3.About this timejthe
ftate and
bapp1nefs
of thefe
poor People
at
Bedford
was
tbus,in
a
'
.,~t,~¥,
of
Vsfton,prefented to me:
I
fa
w
,as
if
t~ey
w.;e .re
(et on the
Sunny-fide
of
fon1e
h1gn
·. ·
~fountain,
there
refreibing ·themfel ves
with