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to t!Je CIJief
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~ within
tne,
yea, and,'as
it
was, call fo ftrong-
ly
after me,
that
9nce
above
aH
the _refl:,
I
.
1
turned
my
-head
over
my
fhoulder,
thtnktng
verily
that fome Man had, behind
tne,
called
1ne ·
being
at a
great
_Diftance,
methought,
he
dalled
fo louu,
it
came, as
I
have thought
fince, to have
fl:irred
1ne up to
Pr~y~r,
___?Rd-
to
Watchfulnefs:
It
can1e .
to acquatnt
me, -
that
a Cloud and
Storm
was
coming dowu
upon
me,
but I underftood
it
not.
·
94·
Alfo,
as
I
remember,
that
time that
it
caUed
to me fo loud, was
the lafr
time
that
it
founded in mine Ear, but methioks I hear
ftill with what a loud voice thefe\\
7
ords,
Si-
"
mon, Simon,
founded
in
my
ears,
I
thought
verily,as
I 'have
told you, thatfome
body had
called after me,
that was
l1alf
a
l\1ile
behind
me: And
altho
that
was
not
my
l'farne,yet
it
made me fuddenly look behind me, believ–
ing
that he that called
f:0
loud meant .me.
·
95·
Butfo
foolifh
was I, and ignoran t, tha t
I
knew not
the
reafon of
t his
fQund (
w
hi eh
"
as I did both fee and
fee l foon
after, was
fent ·
from Heaven,
as an Ala-rm, to
awaken me
to
vide for
what was
coming)
only I
fhou ld
ufe and wonper in
my
rnind,to·
think what
ould be the
reafon that
this
Scripture,
and
that at this rate,fo often and
fo
loud, fhould
frill
be founding
a.rid
ratling
in
n1ine
Ears :
But, as I faid -before, I foon after perceived
the end of God therein.
,
·