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people that had jeoparded their lives in the high places of the fields taking chearfully the ſpoiling of their goods;—theſe are they that have buried the work of the Lord ſadened the hearts of their poor affliction brethren buried the Covenant and the Reformaation work, which was the glory of our land.
ſeeing all this with the home-coming to my
houſe, which I thought I never would have enjoyed again till Chriſt had been reſtored to his rights ; for, O Lord, thou knowest that I desired not delivery till it had come with Zion's I ſay, this caſt me into a great grief. Lord thou knoweſt my burden; it is not hid from thee and it is all my comfort. O the depths of the intricate diſpenſations I have been tryſted with since I came out of that forehead Caſtleǃ If it were not that my caſe and Zion’s is ſomewhat levelled alike, ſurely I would ſink beneath the ſtream; but, the cup which my father had given me, ſhall I not drink it? Lord, help me, that I weary not before it be at an end.
Would it not affect any ſoul that ever had
any love to Chriſt, to ſee the ſad fruit of a
perſonal delivery;—every one running out of the furnace after the world, and alter his own rights and privileges, without being concerned to enquire how Chriſt inveſted him in his rights and prerogatives. Ohǃ is this
