“Yes, I think so indeed.”
“Why do you love him?”
“Because he first loved me.”
“How do you know that he first loved you?”
“Because he sent me instruction, and made me feel the sin of my heart, and taught me to pray for pardon, and love his ways; he sent you to teach me, sir, and to show me the way to be saved; and now I want to be saved in that way that he pleases. Sometimes I feel as if I loved all that he has said and done, so much, that I wish never to think about anything else. I know I did not use to feel so; and I think if he had not loved me first, my wicked heart would never have cared about him. I once loved anything better than religion, but now it is everything to me.”
“Do you believe in your heart that Christ is able and willing to save the chief of sinners?”
“I do.”
“And what are you?”
“A young, but a great sinner.”
“Is it not of his mercy that you know and feel yourself to be a sinner?”