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EXAMINATIONS OF PERSONS UNDER SPIRITUAL CONCERN II
[395/—] He will not chide continually
Nor keep his anger still
With us he dealt not as we sinn’d
Nor did requite our ill.18
One night while I was alone, these words Believing we rejoice, came into my
mind, but more faintly; but afterward that same night whilejoining in Family
Worship, as he19 read in the Chapter that fell in of course that night, while he
read these words. Seeing him who is invisible, the former words came into my
heart suddenly & fully, Whom having not seen we love, in whom tho’ now
we see him not, yet believing we rejoice with joy unspeakable & full of glory:
and at that instant, I was enabled to behave in Christ with a lively faith, &
felt my heart warm’d with Love to him, & fill’d with unspeakable joy in him.
One morning when I was rising, these words came in to my heart, If any
man be in Christ he is a new creature: old things are pass’d away, all things are
become new: I thought this was just I: for I now felt that all old things I had
been formerly inclin’d to, were pass’d away, & all things were made new to
me; I had got new desires, & hopes, new delights &joys, new fears & griefs:
and the Bible & every thing in it was become new me.
[396/—] One Sabbath morning, I was thinking of going to the Kirk, but
the morning being foul, and being but very weak thro’ the trouble I had been
under both in body & mind, some about me were disuading me from going,
thinking it might be prejudicial to my health. But these words coming into
my mind, Wait, I say, upon the Lord,20 determin’d me to go, hoping I would
get strength to go. And to my great surprize when I came, these were the
very words, the Minr (19) read out for his Text: and I was much delighted to
hear that Sermon, and much edify’d by it.
Being for several Lords days unable thro’ bodily weakness & indisposition,
to go to the Kirk; I was one night much cast down at the thoughts of my
Loss this way. But that word being press’d on my heart, For I reckon that
the Sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the
Glory which shall be revealed in us; I had much joy in the prospect of the
Glory to be revealed, & got my mind & will brought up to a pliableness to
the Will of God, whatever afflictions he might see meet to lay upon me, &
was made to bless him for the tokens of his favour he was pleasd to allow
me in Secret Duties, when I was in Providence kept from attending him in
publick Ordinances.
[397/-] One day, when I was not well, sitting by my self, that word came
into my mind. In all their afflictions he was afflicted, the angel of his presence
saved them, in his love and in his pity he redeem’d them, & he bare them &
18 Ps 103:9, Scottish Psalter (metrical).
19 Insertion [‘my Father’]: McCulloch.
20 Isa 40:31.