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EXAMINATIONS OF PERSONS UNDER SPIRITUAL CONCERN II
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[73/—] a.t. A Young Woman of 22 Years.1
I was brought up by my Parents under the Influence of good Instruction and
Example. I was set []2 to pray in Secret when I was a Child, and continued
in that custom of praying by my self twice a day all along my Life from my
Childhood: and usd to attend publick Ordinances to see if I might get any
good to my Soul: and was in mercy restrain’d from any thing grossly vicious
before the world. But alas! all my Religion formerly was but a dead Form. I
never felt the word of God when I read or heard it make any Impression on
me: nor had I any Communion with God in Prayer [ ].31 little thought what
would have become of me if I had died in that Condition.
Coming over to Camb. In March 1742, on a Sabbath, I got nothing by
ordinary on that day; but coming back there again the Munday thereafter;
I heard a Minister (ad)4 preach in the Kirk, on a Text that I cannot now
recollect: but hearing him frequently speak of the State of Condemnation
that all unregenerate, unbelieving Persons are in; that Word Condemnation,
struck me to the Heart, & made me cry out under a Sense of my being in a
lost condemn’d State, and that there was no Relief for me. My Convictions
of Sin then [74/—] began and went on with me. I was then grieved that I had
heard so many Sermons in such a careless way, and dishonoured God by many
other sins: but that I was most of all, at this time, griev’d for my coming to
the Lords Table so unpreparedly, &joining at that Solemn Ordinance in such
an unconcerned manner, as I had done when I communicated formerly.5
1 Rebecca Reid - the shorthand text in McCulloch’s ‘Index of persons’ names who gave the
foregoing accounts to Mr. McC’ states: daughter of James Reid, tenant in Barony. Taught
to read the Bible, got and retained the Catechism to heart.
2 Insertion [‘by them’]: McCulloch.
3 Insertion [‘or other duties’]: McCulloch.
4 William McCulloch (1691-1771) - minister, Cambuslang.
5 Account ends abruptly.