Page:Account of the particular soliloquies and covenant engagements, of Mrs. Janet Hamilton, the deceased lady of Alex. Gordon of Earlston (2).pdf/11



, thou knowest my former engagements which past betwixt my soul and thee, when I entered into covenant with thee (to my soul's great comfort) in the sweet Castle of Blackness.—I giving myself up unto thee, promising to be for thee in my station, adhering to thy sacred scriptures, and to our noble work of reformation, which was then the head of my sufferings, and for which I had lost the favour of my relations and christian friends, whose untenderness to me made me sit solitary, eating the bread of adversity, and drinking the water of affliction killed all the day long with sore and heavy reproaches; few or none to sympathize with me but thyself, who sweetened all my trials with the soul comforting consolations of thy Holy Spirit: such contentedness thou gave