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( 9 ) pray, and I bleſs God, I have had many ſweet returns prayer. That is ſtrange, ſaid Mr. Law to hear the ſpeak of returns of prayer. What call you returns of prayer? She anſwered, That which I prayed unto God for to me, is now returned all unto me. Being aſked afterwards, by one with whom ſhe had often uſed much freedom, if ſhe would tell particularly what ſome of theſe returns of prayer were that ſhe had got? She ſaid, I know that I fought of God that he would give me the ſaving knowledge of him, and I hope that he hath done it; I know alſo it was fought of God for me, that whatſoever he did with me, he would work a ſaving change upon me, and that if it was his will, he would grant I might be made to declare that he had done great things for my ſoul. And hath he not done it? Hath he not done it?

In the afternoon of the ſame day, Mr. James Webſter, another miniſter of the city, coming to viſit her, asked her how she was, and what she was doing? She anſwered I am going to Chriſt; I will meet him, I'll get a crown of glory upon my head, and a long of praiſe in my mouth: this is but a troubleſome world, and for my part, I have had little of nothing but troubles in it. He asked at her, what she thought of ſin? She replied I know ſin is an ill thing, and I deſerve damnation, but he is a good God, and I will truſt in him. Being interrogate if there were any particular ſin that grieved her: She anſwered, Yes, I have neglected prayer when I might have performed it. What more particular ſins o you think on, ſaid he? That, ſaid she, is the particular n. Did you never play, ſaid he on the Sabbath day? Yes id she, and I have been very grieved for that ſin. Well id he, are you content to die? Yes, ſaid she. Then tell e ingenuouſly, ſaid he, and over and over he preſſed her be ingenuous with him, if you could have life for a sh, whether would you chuſe to live or die? I would uſe to die, ſaid she, what is the world? Chriſt is better an a thouſand worlds. I muſt tell you, that wittingly or owingly I never made a lie. What think you of that, he again, folk may have many ſins, and yet not be

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