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his father, until he began to preach; during which time he began to observe the Lord's great goodness that he was born of such parents, who taught him the principles of religion so soon as he was capable to understand any thing.
He says, in his own Historical Account of his Life, that he does not remember the time or means of particularly, whereby the Lord at first wrought upon his heart; only, when he was very young, he would sometimes pray with some feeling, and read the word with some delight; but thereafter did often intermit such exercises, and then would have some challenges, and begin and intermit again, &c.
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