95 / 186
to
the
Chief
of Sil·tners.
85
·yielded
to Defperation!
This is the
Ma11
that
hath his
dwelling
among the
tombs,
with thf dead,
that
i.r
always
crying
out
and cutting him[elf
~;th
flcnes,
1\!ar.
5:
2,
3. ·
But
I
fay~,al'l
In
vain
.i .
Defperauon will
not
comfort
h1n1,
the Old
'Covenant will not
fave
him: Nay, Heaven
and
Earth
fl1al1
pafs
~way
before 'one
jot or
title of the Word and Law of Grace lhall fall, .
or be removed. This )I
favv,
this I
felt,
and ,
under this I groaned ; yet this Ad vantage I ,
got
thereby,
nan1ely, a farther Confirmation
ofthe
certainty of
theW
ay
of
Salvation, and
that theScriptures
were
theWord
ofGod.Oh!
I
cannot
now exprefs what
then
lfaw
~nd
felt .
qf
the
fteadinfs
of Jefus
~hrifi,
the
Rock of
·Man's Salvation : What was
done,could not
be undone, added to, nor
altere~.
I faw, in–
d.eed , that Sin might drive-the Soul beyo.pd
·Chrifr, even the Sin which is
unpardon'abl~;
but woe to
him that was
fo
driven,
for
the
Word would fhut
hin1
out.
186.
Thus
was
1 always
finking, whatever .
I d_id
thin~
or do.
So
one
Day
I
walke~
to a
ne1ghbounng
Town, and
fet
down uppn
a
Settle
in the
Street,
and
fell into
a very
q
eep
Paufe about the·moft
fee1rful
ftate n1y.
fiz{
had
'
brought
h1e
to;
and
after
long mu fing, I lif–
ted up
n1yHead,but
methought I faw as if the
Sun that
fhineth
in the
,Heavens
did grudge
to–
give
light,
and as if the very
frones
in the
Street,
and
Tiles
·upon the Houfes, did bend
themfelv·es againft
ID'e
i
n1ethought that they
all