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EXAMINATIONS OF PERSONS UNDER SPIRITUAL CONCERN II
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or [592/-] to make me look upon all I had met with, as delusions, when the
Event did not fall out as I expected in this Instance. But after some days, I
gradually recovered my former composure of mind.
Several Promises of Scripture have at times been brought into my heart
with great sweetness; on a Fast day before the Sacrament, as I was going to
the Church in Summer 1743, that word came into my heart, I am come into
my garden, my Sister, my Spouse,4 at which I felt my heart set all as in a
flame with love to Christ: and that day hearing a Minister () preach on a Text
in the Song of Solomon, I had difficulty in time of that Sermon, to refrain
crying out for love & joy. [ ]5
For ordinary my chief Concern is about Securing an Interest in Christ;
The motions of Sin are my grief & burden; & sometimes I could be glad to
die to get free of Sin. I find much deadness on my Spirit for some time past;
but I am living in hopes that God will yet be pleasd to quicken me. To his
name be glory.
4 SS 5:1.
5 Insertion [‘I think I can say in the sight of the heart searcher, that my heart has some times
been drawn out to a closure with Christ in all his offices.’]: McCulloch.