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to the
Chief
of
Sin11ers;
~·1
:with fuch
frtengili
and
comfort
on
tllY.:'
Spirit,
thq.t
I
·was as
if
it
talked
with
me.
6 4 •
Well, I lo'oked,
but
I
fou!ld
it ·not,:
o·nly it
abode upon
me:· Then I d1d
ask
fir
it
this
good Man,
and then another, if
they·
· knew wllere·it was ; but they knew
no
fuch .
. place. At
this
I
wondet'd,
that
fucb
a
fen..;
tence fuould
fo
fuddenly,
and \Vith fuch
corn~ ·
'fort
and
!l:rength1
fieze and abide upon
n1y
heart, and
yet
that none could
find it
(for
I
doubted ,not,
but it
was
in
Holy Scripture.) ·
'
6).
Thus I continued above a Year,
and
cbuld·not find
the place;
but at lafr,
cafring
my
eye
into
the
Ap·ocrypha
Books I found
it
in
Ecclejiafi·icus, Ecclef
2. 1
o. This,
at the
firft,
did'fomewbat
daunt me, but becaufe
by.
this ·
tim~l
had
got
moree~perience
of'the
love
and k1ndnefs of God,
1t
troubled
tne
the lefs; efpecially when l confid'er'd,
that
though
it
was
not in
thofe
Texts
that
we
ca\1
Holy and
Canonical;
yet
forafinuch
as
this '
fe~ence
was the
fum
and
·fu hftance of
..
n1any
of
the
Promifes,
it
was
my duty
to
take the comfort of
it ;
and I
blefs
God
for
that ·word,
for
it
was
of
God .
to
me:
That
vvord
doth
ftill,at
tin1es,fhine
before
my
Face~
66.
After
this, that
other.doubt did come
with·fttength
upon
me,
But
how
if
the
day
of·
Grace Jhould be pafl
a~d ·
gone? ,
How
if you ·
l1ave
over-fty>oq
the_t1n1e
o~
l\1ercy? Now
I ·
':en1ember
tha·t
one·
day,
as
~
was :
walkin' ,.
Into.
t~e .~O\l~try
1
I yvas
much
10 the th011ghts
·
~
~·
S'
of