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162 EXAMINATIONS OF PERSONS UNDER SPIRITUAL CONCERN II
[363/-] which settled my troubled heart a little, and gave me peace love and
joy in God. And something of this frame lasted with me for two or three days.
Another time when I was hearing Sermon in the Barony, (19)5 that word,
tho not uttered by the Minister, came in to my heart. Thou wilt keep him in
perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee.61 then got my heart stayed on
God, & had much of holy peace & composure of Soul.
I now find my heart set upon Jesus Christ above all things: the vanities of
a present world have not now that room in my heart they usd to have. I find
great delight in reading my Bible & hearing Sermons. I have sometimes a
Concern & uneasiness about heart Evils, but am not so cast down altogether
as sometimes I have been. And desire to trust in the merits of Christ for all
the Hopes I have of Heaven.
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5 John Hamilton (d. 1780) — minister, Barony/Glasgow; translated to St Mungo’s in 174.9.

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