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Grace
·a!/o1indi11g
of
tli~_s·, .
Eftt,
how·
if
the
day
of
Grace
'be
pafi!
And·
to
aggravate
my
trouble,
the Tempter
prefented
to
my
mind;
thofe
good:
people
of
Bedford,
and fuggefted.
thus unto
me;
That·
thefe:.being
converted already,
they were
all
that God
would
fave in
thofe
parts ; .and
t hat I
ca1ne
too
late,
for
thefe
bad got the·
Blefl1ng before I came.
67~ .
Now was I in
great diftrefs,
thinking
in
very, deed , that
this might well be
fo ;:·
wherefore
1
went up and down be1noaning
my
fad
condition ;. counting
my
felf far
wor.fe then a
thoufand
fools
for ftanding
off'
,.-thus
long,
and
f1Jei1ding fo many years in
fi n as
I
have .done :, frill crying
out,
Oh,_,
tha t I had turned foo ner
!
Oh that
l had
t urned. feven
years ago
!
It
n1ade
me
alfo
an gry~
with
n1y
fe lf, to thi nk that I
lho~Id·
have no rnore
\\li t,
hut
to
trifle
away
.mY
ti1ne,
tillJJiY Soul
ana
Heaven
were·
loft.
68.
Bu t when
r
had been.
long
vexed
wit h
this fear ,
and :was fcarce
able
to,
take
one ·fl:ep
1nore,
juft about the fame place
v'
qere
I
r.ecei
ve.d
my .
other
encouragetnent,.
thefe words broke in upon
my
rn ind,
Com·
pel t hern to
Cu1?Je
·
in,
that
my,
Houfe, may be
fi t7ed : aiJcl
yet
there-is room,
Luke the .
4
221
23 .
1~heie
\vords,.
butefp t~
cLdl y
them.
A,.,d
yet
ther-e
is roo.m,
we re
rweet
w
ora s to nle:
fo r truly., . 1 thcught · that by. them, I
£1W·
that
t h~r e. .
\vas
plac~
enot1 gh in ·Heaven .for
tne _~~ And ~
moreoYcr
3
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that
w·hen
the 'Lord
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