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.;t
Grace
a!Jo-unding
Chrift, in
Mark; Fie
went
up
into
a
Mountah:;
itnd called to him
n'hom
he
woJtld,
ar-~,d
they
·
came
unto
him.
Mark. )·
I
3·
· 75· This Scripture made me faint
and
fear,
·yet
it
kindled
fire in
1ny
SJul. That
which
made..-
me
fear,
was
this:. left
Chrift fuould
have no liking to me, for he called
whom he
wqu/d.
But, Oh
!
the
glory
that I faw in
that Coridi tion did frill fo engage
my
heart,
that I could
feldom read
of
any
that
Chrift
did call, but I prefently
wifhed,,
would
I
had
been
in their
Cl
oaths,
would I hadbeen born
Peter,
would I had
been
born
John ;
or
would I
had
been
by,
~nd
had heardhim when
he
called
them
;
how would I have cried, 0
Lorq, call me alfo?
·
But, Oh
!.
I feared he would not
call
me.
76.
And
truly, t he
Lord
let me go
thus
many
l\1onths
together, and
fh~wed
me
·
nothing ;
either,
that I was
already,
or
fhould be called hereafter: But at
laft, 'after ·
much
time fpent,
and
many
Groans to .
God, that I might be made
partaker
of ·
the Holy and .Heavenly C'all ing
~
that w.ord
came in upon me,
I will cleanfe the,;r Blood
that 1 have not
cle~nfed,
for the
~rJrd dwell~
·.,
eth in Zion
·
Joel
3·
2 I.
Th~fe
words
I ·
· thought
were fent, to
encour~ge
me to wait
ftill upon God ; and figaifi ed ttnto me,
that .
if
I vere not
already,
yet tim'c might con1e ,
l1night be in truth converted unto Chrift • .
77· A
nout
~h is
t ime l
began to break
my
mind to
thoft;
poor
Peop~e
in
Beaford,
and
to