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EXAMINATIONS OF PERSONS UNDER SPIRITUAL CONCERN II
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I got great Liberty to bless & praise the Lord for his great Goodness to the
rest of the meeting that day.
A little after this, going to Paisley-Sacrament in Company with some others,
I was under much discouragement by the way, thinking that there was none
of the rest like me, and that I was not worthy to go in company with them;
On Saturday morning I was a little revivd by that word coming into my heart,
Yet God is good to Israel
To each pure hearted one34
In hearing Sermon on Saturday, I got much [295/—] of brokenness of heart
for sin, as that whereby I had dishonoured God. And in time of the Action
Sermon on Sabbath (), I had my heart filled with the Love of God & Jesus
Christ. And so also in hearing a Minister () preach on that Text on Sabbath
Evening that day, Truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son
Jesus Christ.35 On Tuesday morning following, I was awaked with that
word, As ye have received Christ Jesus the Lord so walk in him,36 upon
which I was confirm’d in the belief that I had received Christ Jesus as my
Lord, & was made to resolve by grace to walk answerably to my Priviledges
and Engagements to his Service.
At Glasgow Sacrament in April 1743,1 got nothing sensibly till at the time
the 2d Table was a serving, when I began to say in heart, This Work is not
far on, but alas! I have got nothing, it seems there is nothing prepared for me
here—; when these words came into my heart, Can a Woman forsake her
sucking Child that she should not have mercy on the fruit of her womb? Yes
she may, yet will I not forget thee,37 saith the Lord: this cheer’d my heart
& raisd my Expectations: And after that while a Minister (26) serv’d three
or four Tables, I had my heart melted into sorrow for Sin at the thoughts
of Christs Sufferings & of his Love, & got my heart filled with love to him.
And on that Sabbath Evening, hearing a Minister () preach on that Text, I
will never leave [296/—] thee nor forsake thee,38 I was greatly confirm’d in
the faith belief, that it would be to me according to that word that had been
made so sweet to me at my first Acquaintance with the comforts of Religion.
To come to a Close. I bless the Lord, that ever since the time just now
mentioned, the thoughts and desires of my heart, de are mainly and ordinarily
carried out after Spiritual and Eternal Blessings. Tho my heart is sometimes
much deader in reading & hearing of the Word [ ] ;39 yet I often long for
34 Ps 73:1, Scottish Psalter (metrical).
35 1 Jn i:3.
34 Col 2:6.
37 15349:15.
38 Heb 13:5.
39 Insertion [‘than at other times’]: McCulloch.