61 / 186
to
the
C.hief
of
Sinners.··
S;<l:~
wife
took
part
ofthe fame,
th~t
thro;zgh
death;,
he--:–
tr~ight
dej1roy him
that
has the
porper
of
death,that
· ·
,is, the·
Devil;
and de
live-,·
tho{e who
through
the'
fear 'of de!lth were
all
tbe ,·r Life fubje8: to
ban.,. ~
dage,
Heb.
2. I
4,1
5•
I thought that
the Glory·,·
(
ot thefe Words was
then
fo
vveig.hty
on
·me;
that I was
both
once
and
twice ready to fwoon ,
as
I
fate;
yet
not ·
with Grief
~nd
Trouble,
but with foHd '
Joy
and
Pea:~e.
'
117 - .
At this time alfo .I
fate
undertne
Mi_; ~
n1fh
y
of
holy
ML
Gfford,
w
hofe
_Docrrine,by
God'sGrace,
wa::; tnuch for myStabHity. 1"'bis
Man
made
it
tnuch
his
hufinefs
to
deliver
the ·
People ofGod
from
an
tbofe falfe
and
t1n..:
foundl'efts, that
by
nature we are
prone to ..
..
He w(ou1d ·bid
us
take fpecial
heed;
that
Vf~
..
took
not
t1
p
anyT·ruth
npon
~rruft
;
as fron1
this, or
that,
or
any
other Man or
IVlen:
but:::
to cry tnightily
t~
God,
that
he vvould con–
vine~
us vf
the
reality\
thereof,
and ·
fet :
us ;.
down therein
by
his
E>vVn
Spirit, in the
Holy
Word ;
., For,
f&id he;,
if
)'OU
dp>~Jtherwife-
rrhen
··
Temptations
come,
if
flrongly,
you
not
havirg:
..
~
rcccz'ved them With evidence
fror~J · f-lettVtn,
Wilt ,
jmd
you
roant
that help·and
jfrent,th,
now. to re- ··
'
Jiff,
that ·once
you
thouaht
JouJuldQ, .
· ·
1 1
8. This was as
feafona
ble to
n1y
Soul, as ·.
the
former :and latter
Rain in
their
fecafon;
for
I ·had found,: and
th'lt by '..
experience.,
t ~ 1e
·
.truth of
thefe
his Wordrs; .(for
I
had
felt,
no
,
.
man can
(ay,
e(peciaHy vvhea ten1pted of the .·
Devil)
thtit
.'Jefm. Chri/t
is
Lord.;
bt~t . bJ.
the
Hc~y
·{
'
~··
5 ·:
Gif-Jo[i) )