73 / 186
/ to ,tbe
Chie/
of
ShJntrs.
_
6j
-fh~~n:ed
of what he
-had
done. At the
fin11c
-time >
aifo
I ,,had
niy
Sin and the Blood
.of
Chrift thus
reprefented
to
tne,
that
n1y
Stn,
w'hen
comp.1red to
th_e
~Iood
of
Ch1
ift, was _
no
more
to
it,
than
thts little clot or ftone be–
fore
n1e., is to
thi:;
vaft
and
,\vide
Field
that
here
I
fee.
This gave
me
good
encour8ge–
ment,
for
the
fpace
of
tWO
or
three
}10UrS ;
/in which time
alfo,methought,l
faw,by
Faith,
·the
Son of
God,as fuffering
for
my
Sins:
Bnt
hecaufe
it
tarried
not,
I
therefore
funk
in
tny
Spirit, under -exceeding guilt again. -
1
45· But chiefly,
by
the
aforementioned
Scripture,
_concerning
Efau's
felling of his
Birth·
right; for
that ScriJ?ture
would
lie
all
Day
long,a11 the-Week long;
yea,all
the
Year
long in
myrv1ind,
and
hold
me down,fo that I
·could
by
rio meJ.ns
lift
up
my
fclf;
for when
I
wonJd
ih-ive
to
tnrn tne
to
this
Scripture,
or
that,
for
relief,
frill
that
Sentence
·would
be
founding in me,
Fqr
ye
know how tbat after–
WtJrds, 1vhen he would
have
inherited the
/Jlef
~
,
he
found
no
place
of
Repentance, thou(T h
he
.
ought
it
carefully
with
Te4r1.
·
0
- 146.
Sometimes,
indted.,
I
lbould
have a
touch
from
that in
Luke
22.
31
~
1
h4ve
prayed
for thee, that thy Faith fail not;
but
it
would
ot abide upon
1ne;
neither could I
indeed,
~vhen
I contidered
my
11ate, find ground-
to
conceive
in
the
leafr,that
there
lhould be the
root of that
Grace
within rrie, )
having
finned
as
,I
had done.
Now
\Vas
I torn
an~l'
rent