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earnestly prayed our Saviour
to have mercy upon me, and
if it was his will, to take
me to himself, rather than
suffer me to prove unfaithful.
<gap></gap>He kindly heard & [?]
[?] me though not in
my way. I laboured to
gain a particular clear-
ness of the forgiveness of my
sins, which our Saviour
did not grant me all at
one :| but yet I knew
he died for me, & could
not think he would
suffer me a poor sinner
to be lost, while crying to
him for mercy -.<gap></gap>My