[20] ] May it please GOD to enrol them in the Royal Regiment of Saints, commanded by his most truly and Honorable Son, the LORD JESUS CHRIST.
[21] ] When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee. Isaiah. chap. 43, ver. 2.
[22] ] I have sinned: what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself. Job, chap. 7. ver. 20.
[23] ] I did not know for what purpose they went for him; but I supposed it was to administer unto me the Extreme-Unction; for as it is reported among the Roman Catholic that a man or woman dying without having received the Extreme-Unction, (which they call a Sacrament,) must either go to Hell, or in Purgatory.
[24] ] Though I had had a taste and a view of the love of GOD, (as you may read in the former part of my life,) and a great desire to serve and worship him; yet I did not feel the corruption of my fallen nature, neither the great weight and burden of my inveterate sins and transgressions: I was far from thinking of the inestimable worth and want of a precious SAVIOUR. I had a zeal, but not according to knowledge; I was like that sect which the Apostle Paul speaks of in the tenth chapter of Romans and the third verse: for they, being ignorant of GOD's Righteousness, and going about to establish their own Righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the Righteousness of GOD. "I thank GOD, through the LORD JESUS CHRIST, that He has subjected me unto his blessed and Everlasting Righteousness; and made me sensible of this, that without the Blood of his dear Son, my sins must for ever remain."
[25] ] the Reverend Samuel Franklin, of Ebley in Gloucestershire, Minister in Lady Huntingdon's connection, then at Ashbourn in Derbyshire.
[26] ] My friends scorn me; but mine eye poureth out tears unto GOD. Job, chap. 16, ver. 20.
[27] ] SION Chapel.
Transcriber's Note:
Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note.