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Grace ahounding
For ·it Z:s neither z."n_him that wi/letl:J, nor in him
that runneth; but in rlodthat
foeweth mercy.
6
r.
By
thefe tnings I was driven to
my
\Vits end, rtot knowing what to fay,
or
how
to
anfwer thefe temptations?
(Indeed, I
little
thought that Satan had thus aifaulted
me,
but
that rather
it
WelS
my
own Prudence, thus
to
ftart the Qpeftion ;) forth at
the
Elect
only
attained Eternal Life, that
l,
without fcru–
ple, did heartily clofe
\Vithal;
but
that
my
felf v;as one of them, there lay the
<81efl:ion.
62.
Thus therefore,
for
feveral days, I
was greatly aifaulted and perplexed, and
\vas often,
·when
I have been walking, ready
:to
fink
where
I
went,
with
faintnefs
in
tny
Mind:
But one day, after
I.
had been
fo
' n1any
~'
eeks oppre!fed and caft down there–
with, as I was now quite giving up the Ghoft
of
all
my
hopes of ever atta-ining Life, 'that
.·Sentence fell with weight upon
1ny
Spirit,
Look
R.t
the generations
of
Old,
and
fee:
Did
,ever
any
trujf in God,
and
were confounded?
63.
Atwhich I
wasgreat1y' lightned,and
.encouraged i'n n1y Soul; for thus
at
that
very inftant,
'it
was expounded · to me :
Begin at ·
the beginning '
of
Genefis,
and
read
to
the end
~f
the
Revelations,
and fee
if
yo1t
can
find
that there
was any that
ever
tr~tfted
in ·
the
Lord, and
was
confottnded.
So
coming
home, I
prefei?tly went to rny Bible, to fee
if I could find
tb1t
faying, not doubting but
t-o
.find
it
prefently :
for
it
wasfo frefu, and
.
,
..
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