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by no other means have got rid of them I pray'd heartily to him, for the
full asurance of the forgiveness of all my sins, which I could no
longer be satisfied about, at the same time hardly knowing what
I wanted forgiving, but at once it came into my mind, that I had
never Lov'd god in my Life from thence flow'd all my sins which
I ever had done or said, then I went on mourning night & day
thinking I must be lost, & wishing myself any sort of creature
but what I was, I work'd at the same time among a company of 8
or 10 very wicked people in a shop, who spent their time in singing
songs or swearing the day long, while I sat weeping & praying
they thinking that I to be sure was going of my senses, at that
time in the midst of all this company, it was to me as if I saw our
Saviour cover'd all over with Blood & wounds, standing before me
who told me that he had dy'd for me & received all those wounds
in his sacred Body on my account, my heart was filld with rapture
& I wish'd that the whole world coul'd join with me, to praise him
I went a qarter of year without ever losing this impression, and
feeling I then got, after this I begun to feel my self very poor, and
left that feeling of joy which I had, this Causd me to mourn, & think
what I had grow'd my dear Lord with about this time dear Br Bohler
came into those parts who preach'd our dear Saviours death & wounds more
clear then ever I had heard before, by this I learn'd to know that I should
remain poor and low in my self, & go to him in his wounds & Blood
Just as I was, then I begaun to reason over myself that I had not known
his wounds & blood aright, & could not be satisfied about it till I had
Learn'd to know them better so I wept and pray'd so long before
him till he again satisfied my poor heart, & afresh let me feel
the power of his wounds and Blood here upon I ask'd my dear parrents
to forgive me every thing where with I had grow'd them & thank'd them
at the same time for learning me to read which struck them very
much but I was glad to read the scriptures which were a very great
comfort to me, & the dear Holy ghost pointed out to me thro them
How I should go on, When I heard of the Brns Settling in yorkshire