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EXAMINATIONS OF PERSONS UNDER SPIRITUAL CONCERN II
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great power, Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared
for you42—and gave me great freedom to go forward to his Holy Table.
When there I thought Christ was standing with outstretched arms ready to
receive me & welcoming me there. I got my heart broken & melted down
under a Sense of Sin. Coming from it, I went to a retir’d place by my self &
pour’d out my soul before the Lord. Hearing a Sermon (32)43 on that, I have
said. That I will keep thy statutes, O forsake me not utterly,44 I found my
heart inclind & resolvd by grace to keep his Statues, and [569/13] pleading
that he might not utterly forsake me. Falling under some damps before I
came away, that word cheer’d me up again, Blessd are they that mourn for
they shall be comforted.
In Novr 1742 hearing a Minr (26) lecture on Lam. 3.1 was much comforted,
especially when he came to these words vs. 21, 22 []45 They are new every
morning &c:46 where I was made to wonder at the sparing mercy of God
toward me, that when I deservd to have been sent to hell long ere now, he
had, in stead of that, been renewing his mercies to me every morning.
At a Weekly Lecture in Camb. injanry 1743, as I came into the Kirk these
words were a giving out to be sung, Give thanks & praise unto the Lord, for
bountiful is he, &c:47 at hearing of which, I was instantly filled with great
joy in God, & my heart was made to praise him for his goodness to me. And
was again much comforted in hearing a Sermon (26) on that Text, so fitted
to what had been my former Case, & what was my present condition, As ye
have been partakers of the Suffering, so shall ye be also of the Consolation.48
I found also a great suitableness in another Weekly Lecture to what had been
my Exercise just before & that very time, on that text, (26) We had the sentence
of death within our selves that &c:49 Where I was led from Self-judging,
and from condemning my self as worthy of Eternal Death, to trust in God
thro’ the merits of Jesus Christ.
[570/14] In hearing some Sermons (26) in May & June 1743 at Camb. on
Eph. 2.4,5 concerning God’s great love & the riches of his mercy, my Soul was
filld with wonder at the mercy & love of God in Christ toward his people, &
to poor unworthy me in particular.
At the Sacrament-Occasion, in Camb. in May 1743, in hearing the Action
Sermon (26) on those words, Who loved me & gave himself for me:50 I
42 Mt 25:34.
43 McCulloch’s records make identification difficult, but (32) is likely John Mackay - minister,
Dunoon.
44 Ps 119:8.
45 Insertion [‘It is of the Lords mercy &c:’]: McCulloch.
46 La 3:23.
47 Ps 106:1, Scottish Psalter (metrical).
48 2 Co 1:7.
49 2 Co 1:9.
50 Gal 2:20.