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30 weighed by that sound sense of death and of the day of judgment which abode, as it were, continually in my View. I would often also think of Nebuchadnezzar, of whom it is said, He had given him all the kingdoms of the earth. Yet, thought I, if this great man had all his portion of this world, one hour in hell fire would make him forget all. Which consideration was a great help to me.

71. I was almost made about this time to see something concerning the beasts that Moses counted clean and unclean. I thought those beasts were types of men—the clean, types of them that were the people of God; but the unclean, types of such as were the children of the wicked one. Now I read that the clean beasts "chewed the cud;" that is, thought I, they show us we must feed upon the Word of God. They also "parted the hoof:" I thought that signified we must part, if we would be saved, with the ways of ungodly men. And also, in further reading about, them, I found that though we did chew the cud as the hare, yet if we walked with claws like a dog, or if we did part the hoof like the swine, yet if we did not chew the cud as the sheep, we are still, for all that, but unclean: for I thought the hare to be a type of those that talk of the Word, yet walk in the ways of sin; and that the swine was like him that parted with his outward pollution, but still wanted the word of faith, without which there could be no way of salvation, let a man be ever so devout. (Deut. xiv.) After this, I found by reading the Word that those that must be glorified with Christ in another world must be called by him here—called to the partaking of a share in his word and righteousness, and to comforts and first-fruits of his Spirit, which do indeed prepare the soul for that rest and the house of glory which is in heaven above.

72. Here again I was at a very great stand, not knowing what to do, fearing I was not called; for, thought I, if I be not called, what then can do me good? But oh, how I now