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Grace abounding
fepara~ion
between the
Chriftians
and
the
World;and the Gap which was in this Wall,
I thought t\'as
jefi1s
Chrifr,
wh~
is
the
way
to
God the
Father,Job.r4.6.Mat.7.14.But
foraf.
n1uch as
the
Paifage
Wa$
wonderful narrow, .
even fo
narrow.; that
I
could not but with
great
difficulty enter in thereat,it
lhewed
me,
~h,at
none could
enter
into
Life,
but thofe that
were
in
down-rig~t
earneft, and
unlefs
alfo
they
left this wicked Wqrld
oePZnd them;
for
here
was
only
roon1
f~r
Boc:y
and Soul,
but not for
Body
and Soul and/
Sin.
.
.
56.
This
refenJblance
abode
upon
n1y
Spi–
rit
n1any days;
all which
·time
I
faw
my
felf
·. in
a .-forlorn
and
fad Condition, but
yet
was
provoked
to a vehement
hunger
and
defire
-to be one of that
number
that did
fit
in
the
Sun-fhine
~·
Now alfo I
fuould
pray
where..
ever
I
was; whether at home,
or
abroad ;
in
11oufe-,
or field ;
and
fl1ould
alfo often,- with
lifting
up of
heart,
fing that of the
fifty
firft
Pfal.
o·
Lord:,. confider
my
diftrefl
;
for as
yet.
knew I
not
where
I was.
57· Neither
as
yet
.c::ould
I
attain·
to
any
comfortable perfwafion
that I
had
Faith in
- .. t:hrift_;
but inftead of having fatisfaB:ion ,
·11ere I began to find
n1y
Soul to be affaulted
with
~relh· do~bts
about
m}(future
happinefs;
refpec1al1y With
fuch as tnefe,
Whethtr
I
was
EleEle4 : But
how
if
the
Day
gf
Grace
Jhould
naw be
paft andgone
?·
_
· .
s·8. By.
th~fe
two
_Temptations
I
was
verhy
~
uc
, m