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( 14 ) that comes to me frequently in my cloſet, as well as before company, which upon all the enquiry, reaſoning, caution, fear, and deliberation that I am capable of, I do firmly believe to be from God; conſequently I dare not diſobey, hide, or ſtifle; under dread o thereby charging my conſcience with a load of guilt and horror unſupportable; though at the ſame time I am ſenſible what numerous reproaches, what loſs, what difficultics, what hazards, what trouble, what labour, what clamours and contempt, the owning myſelf to be inſpired, has done, does and will engage me in; I would not ſurely have unneceſſarily brought myſelf under any of theſe, nor could I now, by my own proper ſtrength, bear up under them: but the inward joy that I have from the great comforter, has from the beginning ſupported me, and I truſt it will continue ſo to do, and make me in his due time triumphant over all.

The following diſcourſes being read to me immediately after they were pronounced, and the divers originals of their collated and gathered into one, before many witneſſes, (that is of ſuch them as were not uttered in the preſence of one ſingle perſon only) did ſign the ſame, being able, from the aid of a tenacious memory, ſo diſtinctly to recollect myſelt, as that I am ſatisfied: there is nothing in them, but what come from my mouth under the influence above mentioned the perſons who wrore theſe diſcourſes (the