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EXAMINATIONS OF PERSONS UNDER SPIRITUAL CONCERN II
head would have gone wrong, and was made to cry out most bitterly under
a Sense of Sin and fears of wrath. A Sense of all my Sins in general press’d
my Spirit, but there were some of them that star’d me much more in the face
than others, and the sins & corruptions of my heart affected me most of all. I
continued in very great distress till Wednesday thereafter: & that day hearing
a Minister (12)4 in the High-Church-yeard, preaching concerning the Pool of
Bethesda, which he explained as signifying the Blood of Christ, to which he
invited poor sensible sinners to come, & dip their polluted Souls by faith in it;
I found my self somewhat lightned of the load of guilt that press’d me, while
I essay’d to comply (thro grace) with these Calls & Invitations, but that night
after, unbelief often prevaild, and when it did so, my former burden returnd.
[414/-] Next day I came & heard him at Cambuslang, but unbehef prevaild
so much, that I thought I was as bad as ever again. Next day while I was
hearing him there, that word (tho not uttered by the Speaker) Ho every one
that thirsteth, come to the waters, and he that hath no money come buy wine
& milk without money & without price:5 and these words followed me all
that night: next day while I was in the fields there, at Secret Prayer, these
words were press’d upon my heart, Arise and shine, for thy light is come, &
the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee:6 these words came with a beam
of light into my Soul, & discovered much of the glory & beauty of Christ,
& his suitableness to my necessities, beyond anything I had seen before: & I
was made to rely on him for all I stood in need of; and raisd got my affections
raisd toward him which vented it self in joyful praises to him for his own
Excellency, and for what he had done for my Soul in giving me a Sense of my
Sin & my lost Condition without him, and for sending me such a gracious
word, with such power at this time.
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4 George Whitefield (1714-70) - evangelist.
' Isa 55:1.