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Rh 119. But oh, now, how was my soul led from truth to truth by God—even from the birth and cradle of the Son of God to his ascension and second coming from heaven to judge the world!

120. Truly I then found, upon this account, the great God was very good unto me; for to my remembrance there was not anything that I then cried unto God to make known and reveal unto me, but he was pleased to do it for me—I mean, not one part of the gospel of the Lord Jesus but I was orderly led into it. Methought I saw with great evidence, from the four evangelists, the wonderful works of God, in giving Jesus Christ to save us, from his conception and birth even to his second coming to judgment. Methought I was as if I had seen him grow up as from the cradle to the cross, to which also, when he came, I saw how gently he gave himself to be hanged and nailed on it for my sins and wicked doing. Also, as I was musing on this his progress, that dropped on my spirit, He was ordained for the slaughter. (1 Pet. i. 20.)

121. When I had considered also the truth of his resurrection, and have remembered that word, "Touch me not," etc., I have seen, as if he had leaped out of the grave's mouth for joy, that was risen again, and had got the conquest over our dreadful foes. (John xx. 17.) I have also, in the spirit, seen him a man on the right hand of God the Father for me, and have seen the manner of his coming from heaven to judge the world with glory, and have been confirmed in these things by these scriptures following: Acts i. 9, 10; vii. 56; x. 42; Heb. vii. 24; Rev. i. 18; 1 Thess. iv. 17, 18.

122. Once I was troubled to know whether the Lord Jesus was man as well as God. and God as well as man; and truly in those days, let men say what they would, unless I had it with evidence from heaven all was nothing to me. Well, I was much troubled about this point, and could not tell how to be resolved. At last that in Rev. v. 6 came into my mind, "And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne