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train me up, alluing me and ſpeaking confortably to me at my firſt entry into the wilderneſs. Thou cauſed thy word to be to my ſoul as the honey and the honey-comb. Thou madſt me sit under thy ſhadow with great delight, and thy fruit was ſweet to my taſte. So that many a time that, which to on-lookers was ſad was ſweet to me. The Lord did ſo ſupport and feaſt me in his banqueting houſe, that I was made to rejoice in the midſt of my tribulations.
Likewiſe thou didſt not ſuffer me to go on with thoſe that were indifferent in Chriſt's matters, but with thy rod thou didſt raiſe ſuch a zeal and love on my ſpirit, and ſo filled my mouth with arguments that I could not ſee anything like detection from, or wrong done to, any of thy truths, without reſenting, teſtifying, and contending againſt it. Thou ſo far changed my heart, which was proud and haughty, much disdaining the converſe of the poor,—that thou helped me to be denied to great folk and to the reproach I ſuffered on that were godly in the land dear of the poor that were godly in the land dear unto me and I hope they ſhall be ſo, while they keep in God's way—he having paſsed by the great ones, and honoured the poor, making them boldly to teſtify for him, and thoſe whom he honours, I desire (thro' grace) to
