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EXAMINATIONS OF PERSONS UNDER SPIRITUAL CONCERN II
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heart In God still hope & rest, which came with such Influence, as made me
to beheve [324/—] that this Awakning, at that time, was the work of God
upon my Self & others: and my Soul was thereupon made to hope and rest
in God thro’ Christ. But sometime shortly after this, hearing some call it a
Delusion of Satan: & I was in fear at that time that it might be so with my
Self & others: but that word coming in with power & light, Fear not, be not
afraid, It is I: which Scatter’d my doubts and fears, & made me believe that
it was the work of the Spirit of the Lord, and not a Delusion.
On a Thanksgiving Day in May 1742 hearing a minister (26) preach on
that Text, The Lord hath done great things for us whereof we are glad,12
I could then say with respect to my self in particular, The Lord hath done
great things for me whereof I am glad; for I was then made clearly to see
by Scripture Evidences, the reality of a Saving Change on my Soul: I saw
that I had thro’ grace got hatred of Sin, as displeasing to God and wounding
to Christ, & I now & for some time past, had a great desire after the Word,
& came to hear in order to meet Christ in it, & often found it sweet to my
taste things I had been quite a stranger to in the [325/—] former part of my
life before Febry 1742.
At the first Sacrament at Camb. that year, I met with nothing sensible ‘till
Sabbath Evening, when hearing a Minister (12)13 on that Text, Thy maker is
thy Husband &c:14 I found it to be a new Reviving to me. And when he said
He was sent to take a wife for his Masters Son, asking, If there was any there
that wanted to take Christ for their Husband, & bidding them come, & he
would marry them to Christ, after which he laid out the Terms, & I found
my heart made sweetly to agree to those Terms & found the Evidences he
gave of these that were married to Christ wrought in my heart.
To draw to a close of this short account. I now find a remarkable alteration
in the habitual bent of my heart from what usd to be before my Awakening
in Feb. 1742.1 now find no pleasure in several things wherein I took pleasure
before, & I have now much pleasure in things wherein formerly I had none.
Formerly [326/—] my chief pleasure was having things in the World go well
with me: in this I find but very little pleasure now: formerly I could take
no pleasure in Spiritual things or exercises: now I find my chief delight is
not in things here below but in things above, & I can heartily say with the
Psalmist, That One day in Gods courts I have found to be better than a
thousand elsewhere.15 And I think I can say, That I would rather choose
to endure affliction with the People of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of
Sin which are but for a Season. If I might were to say, with Job, O that the
12 Ps 126:3.
13 George Whitefield (1714-70) - evangelist.
14 La 54:5-
15 Ps 84:10.