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EXAMINATIONS OF PERSONS UNDER SPIRITUAL CONCERN II
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liberty & peace in believing I will be your God & Ye shall be my people241
got near access to God in that duty
Some time Lately I was cast down & discouraged when I thought upon my
own weakness & insufficiency and greatly afraid that I would draw back from
God & My Duty and but one Day My Parish The Minr was lecturing one y'
Ps. in his ordinary place from upon ye words O God thou wilt strengthen that
which thou hast wrought for us25 And as he was explained these words he
had that Espression which came with power upon my heart & strengthened
my faith God will perfect that which he had begun
And now since my first effectual! awakening to see my danger by sin and I
hope Saving inlightning to see the remedy it is my constant business to travel
betwixt the Redeemers fulness and my own Emptiness I am still desiring
more of him and habitually Meditating upon him and I endeavour to make
the Glory of God My Chief End My sins are the greatest grief in this world
I long to get rid of all Sin and to Enjoy God forever & ever
I heartyly pity them that oppose what I find to be a Work of Gods Spirit I
have suffered the persecution of their tongues I am helped patiently to bear it
and I have no rest upon my mind till I get them heartily forgiven & my Soul
pourd out before God in their behalf that he may forgive and inlighten them
and let them see that it is Jesus Whom they persecute I am in good hope the
Lord will hear in his own good time
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