390· ·A' Sennott af' the l~'u tteral his age, ('vhich children fo much dote up--– pon); but npon fuch occafions did ufually retire fron1 then1 ; and that not out of ful– lenefs. of hutnour, or- · dullnefs of fpirit, (th~ fweetnefs and ferenity of whofe tem– per did even then appc~r), but out of a. fl:ayednefs of n1ind, going to fon1c privacy, and ernploying his time in reading, prayer, . and fuch ferious thoughts as that age was capable of. Sometimes he would be taken . ·up with the thoughts of the law of M q(es, \vondering how altars and facrificcs, and its– , other ceretnonies, were not now an1ong the. excrcjfesof our worihip ; .at other tin1es em-· ploying himfelf in little in1itations of the ex- . ercifes of the holy funCtion, as preaching,. and· the like. .. And ·an1ong- other infiances.· of the happy fruits of fuch retirements, this deferves to be ren1en1bcre~, that, being once in a fcrious reflection what courfe of life he fhould take that might ,be· conducive to the falvation of 'his foul, and being in a. deep n1ufe of thoughts, he takes up the Bible to read a portion of it: and though . he was always averfe to the making a lot-· tery of the holy fcriptures yet he could not. but take notice of the firfi words whicH-, occa!ionally he caft ·his- eyes upon, and. ;vl1kh made. no· fmall: ih1preffion "n his:; · f1]iritt
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