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

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EXAMINATIONS OF PERSONS UNDER SPIRITUAL CONCERN II
when I was in my way home these words came into My mind w’ power thou
shall be pure as gold and fine as Ophir & they made such ane impression upon
me that they greatly raised up my Spirits I did not know where to find that
passage but resolved to make search for it till I got it And the first time I took
the bible into my hand after this I happened to lookd upon Isa: 13.12 [f]u
where thus it is written I will make a man more precious than fine gold Even
a man [ ]12 the golden wedge of Ophir. I was glad that I had met with that
passage as being the same in Scriptures with having some relation to what
was spoken to my heart in my way home Which gave me great ease and
Comfort for I thought those whom God had purged from their Iniquities
were made more precious than pure Gold pure as gold & precious as the
Wedge of Ophir but after this I doubted if I had any interest in these words
spoken inwardly to my soul and then it came these words came also into my
mind I will cover thee under my wings till the Day of adversity be [603/—]
over. I was then in such a condition and Christ was precious to my soul that
I thought I could have parted will all I had for out of love to him. I continued
for some days after this in such a frame that nothing could divert my thoughts
from Christ and Inclined then resolved to lay my self down for ever at his
feet for mercy and his free grace to Save me I was filled with high Esteem of
His blood which alone could Save me and I saw if I had once got one interest
in Christ Indeed no oyr Saviour
After this Satan began to tempt me to Deny Christ but I was helped to
resist him Replying again No no I was willing to be denyed to all and to part
with all but that him I would not deny him. I cannot want This temptation
wrought within me for about a 14 days before that temptation left me I was
coming to Camb. to hear a Stranger Minr (Mr Wh—d) and two or three
days before I heard him it was constantly urgd upon my mind that if I went
& heard that Minr I would go mad when I The day that I came to hear him I
got great liberty to pray for that Minr and for all that should hear him After
I heard his first sermon I was some what revived but got no particular word
to my Soul. The Tempter began again to urge me wt his former temptation
next day I could not win back that day to hear him but I could not stay at
home [ ]131 went therefore to the fields with my Child and waited upon God
When I was a mile from home I heard a great Crack of thunder which used
to affright me much and I Knew not whither to return to my own house or
go forward to a friends House whom I was intending to see that Day Then I
resolved in the Strength of the Lord to go forward When I had gone a about
half a mile further I was made to believe that [ ]141 dyed that day it should
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‘with the first glance of my Eye’]: McCulloch,
‘than’]: McCulloch.
‘at my own house’]: McCulloch.
‘if’]: McCulloch.