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EXAMINATIONS OF PERSONS UNDER SPIRITUAL CONCERN II
[593/—] A Married woman of 36 years.1
In my Childhood I some-minded Prayer in Secret & sometimes neglected it.
When I came to Womans years, I durst not altogether neglect Secret Prayer,
hut reading & hearing of the Word at stated times, and sometimes I felt some
desires after Christ, at but I think I have reason to conclude that all that time
I was a Stranger to Communion with God. I had also at certain times, a great
Fear & Concern upon my Spirit, apprehending that I would die soon; hut
and under these fears of perishing for ever, if I dy’d in the Condition I was
in, I would have sometimes have been made to cry out in the night time on
my bed: but when these apprehensions of approaching Death wore off, these
fears wore off also & I was returned to what I was before. And very often
ommitted Secret Prayer.
When the Awakening brake out at Cambuslang, I came there, & was
mighty desirous to hear & see these that were under great concern, & to
hear & know what they said as to their Convictions of Sin & workings of
Grace, & earnestly desir’d that I might be the next, that might fall under
Awakenings. I then found my heart [594/-] drawn out to a choice of the ways
of God. At Blantyre Sacrament in 1743, hearing a Minister on that Text on
the Saturday, The Lord is my portion saith my soul therefore will I hope in
him,2 I was much concernd to be able to saith so. On Munday hearing a
Sermon in these words, Christ in you the hope of glory31 found what was
said brought home with much delight to my soul. On the Munday Morning
immediately after the Sacrament at Cambuslang that year, I was awak’d with
many Convictions & Challenges for Sin, & made to see that all I had ever done
had was sin. While in this case One in the form of a beautiful Man appeared
to me fop as in a Vision, and then vanishd away as it had been out of sight.
1 Partial account with no record of respondent’s name.
2 Lk 3:24.
3 Col 1:27.