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So
·
1
Gr.~1ce
abo:tncling
'
in Prayer.
This I did·
1
but
with
great
difficut ..
ty,
God doth ,know; and that becaufe toge–
ther
'wVith
this,
ftiH
that faying
about
E(au
v1ould
be fet at
rn
y
f):
ea rt,even like a
flaming .
Sword.,to keep the \V?.Y
ofthe Tree
pf
Life,
lefr I
fnonld
tJ.fl:e thereof,a nd
lj
~e.
Oh!
Who
knows
ho\V
hard a thing I found
it,
to
come
to God ia Prayer.
·
.178.!
did al[o defire the
Prayers ofthePeo- ·
ple of God for 1ne,but I feared thatGod would
give then1 no f-lea rt to do
it;
yea,.I
trembled
in
1ny
Sour,to
think,' that
fome or other
of
thetn would flrortly tell me, that God
hJd
faid
thofe vVords
to thetn, that he once
did
, fay
to
the
Prophet,
concerning
the
Children
of
Jfrael
1
Pray
tJOt
for
this People, for Thave
·
rejeEted
them,
Jer.
i
1 • .
I
4·
So,
Pray not
jo1
him,
for
I
ha·ve rejeHed Lim.
Yea, .I thought that
he ·
had whifpered this to fon1e 0f them already,
only they
durfl:
not
tell
lne
fo, neither durft
. I ask
them
of
it,
for fear, if
it
fhould
be
fo,
it
would make me
quite
befides
tny
felf:
Man
knows the beginnjng
~~L;.
Sin
(faid
Splra)
but
who
bounds the zjfues
thereof.
179·
A
bont
this
~ime
1
took
an
opportunity
to break
n1y
mind to
an
ancienrChriftian,a~d
told
him
an
lTIY
CJ.fe:
1
told
hitn
alfo, that I
was afraid that I had finned
the
fin
againft the
HolyGhofr;
and he\old
me,
He thought
fo
too.
Here therefore· I had but cold
con1fort;
but
·,
talking a
little
more
with
hin1,
I found
him,
tho~
a
good
Man, a
Stranger to
much
Corn-