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to the
~hief
Sinners.
57
thought I,
th~t
I
~~re ~9urfcore
Years old
now.,
thlilt I
mtght
diC'q?Ickly,
that.
n1y
Soul
might
be
gone
to
r~ft.
·.
·
_
1
29.
;But
before
I
had
got
thus
far out
of
thefe
rny
1...emptations, I did
gt\eatl y
long to
fee fome ancient godlyMan's experience, who
had wr it i:')Ine hundreds of years before I was
born ; fo r tho(e who had writ in our
days,
I thought (bnt I de fi re them no"v
t?
pardon
n1e) that they bad wr it only that ·wluch others
felt;
or elfe had,_through theltrcngth of their
\1\li ts
and
Parts~ftudied
to anfwrr
filCh
Obje–
frion s as
they
percei v'd others were perplex–
ed with, v:;ithout
guirig
dov,vn
tbe1nfelves
in–
to
the
deep. ·
Vl
eH,
a
f~cr
n1any
fuch
lonl;ings
in
n1y
Mind,
the God., · in vvhefe hand are all .
our
Days
and\i\l
ays.,did
cJfr
into rny hand(one
d
)
B
, .
c
.,
{
-~
,
•
l.
\
ay
a
~
001{
or
./v~i~rt.tn
J
Ntner;
It
vvas
_1IS
ConJt~1enton
theG
:"l.::ttia'iJs;
it
~lfo
was
foold,
that
it
\Vas
ready
to
fan
piece from
piece
if
I
did but turn
it
t?Ver.
Novv I was p1eafed
n1uch,
that fnch an ':.ld Book had fallen
i~;.to
rny
..
hand .;
the Vdlich'} when I had
out
a
little .
vvaypen#fed, I found
n1y
condition, in his
ex–
perience, fo largely and profoundly handled,
as
if
hiS
Book had been written . out of
1ny
1
'""""~
.
1
1
c
l
.
eart.
J
tHS
1naue
rr:e
tnarv
e :
10r
t
1
us tho'ught
1,
1'J;is A-fan could not
lznow .
any
thing
of
ths
·
ftate
of
Chrijl':~n.s
nom, but
muft
needs
1vrite
and
.
fpttlk
the experience of fermer
days.
,
I
30 ..
Befide·s, he
~oth
n1oft gravely
alfo
in
··th~~ p~ok, 4~~~F.~ 9!. H~~ !·~[~
?f
~hefe
terr;pta–
tatloDs · ·
.
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