Series 6 > McCulloch examinations of the Cambuslang revival (1742) > Volume 6

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EXAMINATIONS OF PERSONS UNDER SPIRITUAL CONCERN II
my losing & misimproving my precious time & the Seasons of Grace I had
enjoy’d, & trifling about Soul-Concerns as I had done hitherto.
And thus things continued till about the 17th day of June 1742, when Mr
Wki hearing a Stranger Minister, who came first to Camb. that day, discourse
on the Brae there that night, after Day-light was gone, a little after I had been
bewailing my Sad Case, some sentence he spoke, (which I cannot now distinctly
remember,) struck me to the heart, so that I fell into a swoon, (tho I did not
cry any) a horror of great darkness coming over me, and continued for some
small space, during which time I heard nothing. But my senses understanding
remaind with me. And in the middle of this Swoon, my bodily eyes being
shut, I thought I saw a clear light all at once shining about me, as when the
Sun shines bright at noon, and apprehended that I was in a very large Room
[ ]5 there was represented to my mind, a very large Scroll of Paper, let down
as from the Roof [422/-] above, filling the breadth of the room & one end
of the Room upwards, & the Scroll brought so near me, that the lower End
of it was just at my feet, and it appeard to be all printed over in large distinct
lines & letters; but when I thought I essayed to read it, I could, the lower part
of it next me, I found I could not read one word of it: only it was impress’d
on my mind, that was a Scroll containing all my Sins, that were all marked
& recorded before God. And after a little the Scroll was drawn up again, & I
recovered out of my Swoon [ ].6
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5 Insertion [‘I thought I saw a deep dark pit on both sides of me, which I took to be Hell, &
thought I was just ready to tumble into it: and’]: McCulloch.
6 Insertion [‘& the former darkness returnd’]: McCulloch.