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( 12 ) duced by a ſuperior agent, and are independent of me any further, than that I do not, nor dare not oppoſe, but do remain altogether paſſive. My mind at thoſe times continues clear and ſedate; during which, my fear and caution makes me wait always, till the tongue be moved by the ſuperiour power: por does any impulſe alone prevail with me therein, ſo that it is no longer I, as the voluntary prime mover and agent, that ſpeak; and oftentimes I know not the ſenſe, till the words are ſpoken, and ſo heard by me as by other perſons preſent: nor did I myſelf write thoſe Engliſh words which are contained in the warning of the 12th of July; but my fingers were forcibly moved to do it, my eyes being then cloſe ſhut, and I under the agitations; therefore I utterly deny myſelf to be the framer either of the agitations, or of the voice; I have moreover thrice experienced a tone, or manner in the voice itſelf, which I am well aſſured I am no ways capable of, in my natural ſtate.

I have great reaſon to bleſs God for having had a virtuous education, and for the grace that he has ſince vouchſaſed me, never to allow myſelf to live in known ſin, nor deliberately or preſumptuouſly to commit any one ſuch act; I have therefore the more confidence that God does not now deliver me up to ſo horrid a deluſion, as the voluntary ſpeaking, of myſelf, in his perſon would be; and when I believe the wilful do-