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EXAMINATIONS OF PERSONS UNDER SPIRITUAL CONCERN II
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& the wonderful Love of Christ in giving himself, &c: And quickly came to
her Condition in particular; and quickly within a very little, while he was
going on in Prayer, she told the Person who was supporting her. He (meaning
Christ) says to me, He will never leave me nor forsake me, repeating it over &
over; and immediatly after, she said to that person again, He is telling me. He
hath cast all my Sins behind his back. The Minister shortly concluding Prayer,
she then repeated to him the Promises before mentioned that God had spoke
in to her heart; and brake out adoring and admiring Christ in the Glories &
Excellences of his Person, and the Wonders of his Love and free Grace, and
complaining of her late Unbelief, crying out with melting admiration, Oh!
I would not beheve ‘till I felt his Power; but now his Love hath conquered
my heart: he has pardon’d my unbelief, he hath drawn me with Cords of
Love and bands of a man: I thoughts my Sins were so great and many, that
he would not pardon them; but now He hath cast them all behind his back;
His thoughts are not as my thoughts, nor his ways as my ways.
The Minister seing a good deal of People, by that time, gathered into the
Room, and [272/-] particularly some young Women of her Acquaintance,
all of the Company being greatly affected, several of them weeping & crying
out almost all this time; said to her, pointing at some of them. You see that
there are several Daughters of Jerusalem there, that will be, it’s like, saying in
their hearts to you. What is thy Beloved more than another Beloved: Have
you any thing to say to commend Christ to them? She immediatly turn’d to
them, and said in the most moving and feeling manner, My Beloved is white
and ruddy, the chief among ten thousand, yea he is altogether lovely. O Sirs,
will ye come to Christ. O come and trust him. If ye cannot cry to him, O
long after him, Oh! will ye at least sigh & sob for him. I can now say, My
Beloved is mine & I am his.
At this time, there was a great Stir among the Affections of these present.
The joys of some were plainly transporting, & almost too strong for them
to contain, and others also greatly rejoiced in spirit. And there was a sound
of weeping among others, that might be heard at a considerable distance.
After some time had been spent thus, the Minister said, Compose your
selves, Sirs, and let us praise God; and turning to the lately distressed but now
comforted Person, [273/—] ask’d her, If we should Sing the 103d Psalm at the
beginning, and if she would join in it? to which she cheerfully agreed, and
the first eight verses of that Psalm, were accordingly sung by the Company,
in which she joyfully bare a part; and some others of the Company sung with
much of the same frame. After that Exercise was over, the Minister said to
her, I suppose you have been singing with pleasure; She answered, That she
had never sung in that manner before, and said she had never known Christ
before this Occasion.
She then rose up with great Vigour of Body & liveliness of Spirit, and
turn’d about first to her Sister, who, in the judgment of Charity was supposd