8 / 186
The·
Preface.
frefh~d
therehj.
(Temptations,
when
w
meet them at fir/1 ,
4re as
the
Lyon
th.tt roared
upon
Sam
G
n ;
hut
if
we over·
come them,
the
next
time we
..
··
.~
n, 1Ve
foal/
find
a
Ne
{I
Df
Hone~
witbi·n
them)
1Jii
Philiftines
underftand
me not•
.
It is [omething
a
~latirftz
ofthe Work of God upon
my
Soul,
even
from
the ruery
firjf,
till
new,
-wherein.you
may
perceive
my
Ctiflings doft'n,and
my
RJfin£s up; for he .woundeth.and
his
Hands make
whole.
It
is written in
the
Scripture,
Ifa.
38.
19.
Tl1e Father to
the
Children fhall make known
the
Truth
of God.
:rea,
it
was for
this
.Rea{on 1)1:_'1
fo
long aJ
Sinai (Lev. 4·
to,
11.)
to
fee the
Fire,
a11d
the
Cloud, and the D.trkne{s,
that I
might
fear the
Lord
all
the days of my Life·
upon Earth, and
ten
of
his
won·
drous
Works
to
my
Children,
Pfal.
78. 3, 4,
~·
Mofes, Numb. 31·
1,
2.
writ of
the
:four't1ey_ings of
the
Children
of
Ifrael,
from
Egypt,
to the Lan4
of
Canaln;
•nd commanded alfo that they did
remember tbeir
forty rears
Trarutl
in the
Wildernefs
:
Thou fhalt remember all the
Ways which
the·~Lord
thy God leads thee thefe forty
Years
in
the
Wildernefs,
to humble thee, and to prove–
thee, and to
know
what was in thine Heart, whether
thou
wouldft keep
his
Commandments, oc no,
Deut.
i .
2,
~. ~Vh"cfore
this I
barue
end~avoured
,to
do;
a;uJ.
not
~mlj
fo, nut to publiJb
it
aJfQ
;
that
if
God
will,
others may
he put in
rtmemhrance
of
what he
ha~b
dtme
for their
Soulst
it} reading his
Work
uprm.
me.
it is 1rojitable
for Cbriftian!
to
be
cfcen
ca.lling
t~
mind
fbe
very
Beginnint,s
of
Grace 'With
tbeir
Souls.
It
' is
a
Night to be much obferved to -the Lord, for bringing
them out
from
the Land of
Egypt.
This is that Night
of the
Lord to
be
obferved of
an
the Children of
I[rael,
in
their GenertJtions,Exod.
1
2.42.
My
God,
(aith David,
Pfal
42.
6.
My Soul iscaft down within me; but I
re·
- member theeJrom
the
Land
of
5ordan;
and of
the
Hermonites,
from the Hill
_Mi:rar. He reme1nbrea
aljo
the
LJ011-
and the
Bear,
when he went to figh' with the
Giant of
Gath,
1
Sam. l7· 36, 37•
It was-
Paul's
tccuftomed manner,
.ADs
~2.
and
that
'J'Jhen
tritd
Jor
his
Life,
Atls
24·
even
to open before
hi1
:fudges the manner of his CCJnverJi•n: He would think
o