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EXAMINATIONS OF PERSONS UNDER SPIRITUAL CONCERN II
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On Friday before the Sacrament at Camb. in May 1743 when I was at
home, thinking of coming & joining at that Occasion, that word came into
my heart, My Soul wait thou with patience
Upon thy God alone—,32
which engag’d me to resolve to wait with as much serious composure on
God in that Ordinance as might be, to see what the Lord he would do for
me or to me, in a way of mercy.
On Saturday I had much delight in hearing the Sermons there; & as I
came away, these words came in. Return to thy Rest [401/—] O my Soul.33 I
knew no other rest for my Soul but Christ, & to him I desird to return as my
quiet rest. I had also great delight in hearing Sermons on Sabbath & Munday,
but cannot say that I met with any thing more at that Occasion, sensibly &
immediately from the Lord.
And now when I reflect on the ordinary bent of my heart & course of
my Life, I desire to acknowledge it to the praise of free grace, that tho other
things beside Christ have but too much room in my thoughts; yet I find my
heart run out after Christ above all things, & how to get more Communion
with him & more likeness to him, to be under his conduct & care, & the
Influence & guiding of his Holy Spirit. Sin is my daylie trouble & grief, and
I long to be perfectly free of it, & to be with Christ in Heaven; to whom be
Glory and Dominion now & ever Amen.
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32 Ps 62:5, Scottish Psalter (metrical).
33 Ps 116:7.