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9 executed shortly after; but I have not been able to learn that there was any hope in his death.

I had often prayed that God would make my wife a subject of the same change which he had wrought in me, for though she had not been so outwardly wicked as many of her neighbours; yet she was not converted, or regenerated by the Holy Ghost. When I first urged this important subject upon her, she saw no need of it: but it pleased God soon to convince her of the sin of her heart. Seeing herself a ruined sinner, she applied by faith to the Lord Jesus Christ; and I trust was justified freely through his blood. Her couversionconversion [sic] was a great accession to my happiness. I now went on in the Christian way, rejoicing in God my Saviour; making mention of his righteousness daily, and of his only. It often afforded me a high degree of pleasure, to hear my children read the holy scriptures, and sing hymns and spiritual songs, which they had learned at their Sunday School. It is easy to conceive, that my present situation must be infinitely preferable to my past state. Having taken upon me the yoke of Christ, I am constrained to affirm, that it is easy, and his burden light; and I can assure my readers, I find so much personal and domestic happiness, that I would not exchange my present situation for the whole world. I enjoy so much comfort, and reap so many spiritual advantages in attending the house of God, that I would rather be a door-keeper therein than dwell in the tents of wickedness. My delight is with the people of God: I often take sweet counsel with