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Rh Chr. Then as it ſeems ſometimes you got rid of your trouble.

Hopef. Yes verily, but it would come into my mind again, and then I ſhould be as bad, nay worſe, then I was before.

Chr. Why, what was it that brought your ſins to mind again?

Hopef. Many things, As,

1. If I did but meet a good man in the Streets; or,

2. If I have heard any read in the Bible; or,

3. If mine Head did begin to Ake; or,

4. I were told that ſome of my Neighbours were ſick; or,

5. If I heard the Bell Toull for ſome that were dead; or,

6. If I thought of dying my ſelf; or,

7. If I heard that ſuddain death happened to others.

8 . But eſpecially, when I thought of my ſelf, that I muſt quickly come to Judgement.

Chr. And could you at any time with eaſe get off the guilt of ſin when by any of theſe wayes it came upon you?

Hopef. No, not latterly, for then they got fafter hold of my ence