Chr. And what was the reaſon you did not?
Hopef. I believed that that was true which had been told me, to wit. That without the righteouſneſs of this Chriſt, all the World could not ſave me: And therefore thought I with my ſelf, if I leave off, I die; and I can but die at the Throne of Grace. And withall, this came into my mind. Hab. 2.3. If it tarry, wait for it, becauſe itw ill ſurely come, and will not tarry. So I continued Praying untill the Father ſhewed me his Son.
Chr. And how was he revealed unto you?
Hopef. I did not ſee him with my bodily eyes, Eph. 1. 18,19. but with the eyes of mine understanding; and thus it was. One day I was very ſad, I think ſader then at any one time in my life; and this ſadness was through a freſh ſight of the greatneſs and vileneſs of my ſins: And as I was then looking for nothing but Hell, and the everlaſting damnation of my Soul, ſuddenly, as I thought, I ſaw the Lord Jeſus look down from Heaven upon me, Acts 16. 30 31. and saying, Believe on the Lord Jeſus Chriſt, and thou ſhalt be ſaved.
