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the greatitude we have ſhewn him for all his loving kindneſs to us in the wilderneſsǃ Is this for his feeding, cloathing and preserving in deſpight of enemies! Is this all we have rendered to him—to run as ſo many ſheep out of a fold, every one to what he could win at, without ever looking and considering what was their duty to do in ſuch a time for Chriſt and his cauſe! O! wrath is gone out againſt us! Plague upon plague is the portion for profeſsors of this generation! O Lord, I fear I, and many others, have been building upon a ſandy foundation; ſuffering more out of an expectation of a temporal delivery, than out of love to Chriſt and his cauſeǃ the event of the ſufferings of Scotland ſpeaks out the truth of this,—the fight whereof has made my heart to trouble. Therefore, O Lord I desire that you wouldeſt uncover the deceit of my heart in this with a true ſenſe of it upon my ſpirit; that I may mourn in ſecret places for it. O! give me thy abiding grace and helping hand in this reeling, fainting and failing time, that I may be helped, in singleneſs and uprightings of heart, and in sincerity without hypocriſy or guile, to lay that foundation ſtone right which is Jesus Chriſt. O come and give thy conſent to this covenant and bargain this day: let thy preſence ſhew thy ſatisſaction in it, that I may win to the faith—that not only I have covenanted with thee, but that thou haſt condeſended in thy.
