Bunyan - PR3329 G1 1692

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to the Chief of Sin11ers.

3

S

Good

Lord, break

it'

open :

Lord

break the

Gates of Brafs,

and cut the

Bars of /ton afun–

der,

Pfal.

I07. l6, '

Yet that Word

would

create

in

my

Heart a peaceable Paufe;

I

girded

.thee, tho' thou haft not known me,

Jfa.

4) ..

5·

· 82. But

all this

'while,

as to the

ACt:

of fin–

ning,

I

never was more

tender th3n

now ;

my

hinder

Parts

were in

ward

~.

Id

urft not take a

Pin or Stick,

tho'

but fo big

as

a Straw;

for

my

Confcience

was no\V

fore, and

would

f1nart at

every

touch :

I

could not now

tell

how to fpeak

my

Words for

fear

I

Ihou!d m

if–

place them.

Oh,

how

gingerly

did

I

then·

go, -in

all

I

did or faid

?

I

found

my

felf as

on

a miry Bog,

that

lboo~

if

I

did

put

ftir,and

.was there left both of God

arid

Chrifr,.

and

the Spirit, and all good Things.

.

; 83.

But

I

obferve, tho'

1

\vas

fuch

a-

great

·finner before Converfion,yet God never

mu(;h

charged the guilt of the fins of 111Y ignorance

, upon

me;

only he Ihewed me

I

was Ioft if

I

had not Chrift, becaufe

I

had be.en a Sinner.

I

fa\V.

that

I

\Vanted

a perfetl:

Righteoufnefs,

to

prefent

me

without

fa,ult

before God ; and

·this

Righteoqfnefs was no where to

befoun~

but

in,

the Perfon of Jefus Chrift._

84. But

n1y

original and inward pol1ution,

tha~,that

was

tny

plague and

my

affiiB:ion~that

I

fay, _at .a

dreadful rate,ahvays

putting

forth

it

f~lf

within

n1e ;

that

I

had the guilt of, to

amazement;

by

reafon of that,

twas

more

loathfob1e :n

my

O\Vn

Eyes

than was a Toad,

and