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 8 Anne Bradjlrect''s Works.

thovght if the Lord would but lift vp the light of his Covntenance vpon me, altho: he grovnd me to powder, it would bee but light to me; 3^ea, oft haue I thovght were it hell itfelf, and could there find the Love of God toward me, it would bee a Heaven. And, could I haue been in Heaven without the Love of God, it would haue been a Hell to me; for, in Truth, it is the abfence and prefence of God that makes Heaven or Hell.

Many times hath Satan troubled me concerning the verity of the fcriptures, many times by Atheifme how I could know whether there was a God; I never faw any miracles to confirm me, and thole which I read of how did I know but they were feigned. That there is a God my Reafon w^ould foon tell me by the wondrous workes that I fee, the vaft frame of the Heaven and the Earth, the order of all things, night and day. Summer and Winter, Spring and Autvmne, the dayly providing for this great hovfhold vpon the Earth, the preferving and dire6ling of All to its proper end. The confideration of thefe things would with amazement certainl}^ refolve me that there is an Eter- nall Being.

But how fliould I know he is fuch a God as I worfliip in Trinity, and fuch a Saviour as I rely upon? tho: this hath thovfands of Times been fvo-o'efted to mee, yet God hath helped me over. I haue argved thvs with myfelf. That there is a God I fee. If ever this God hath revealed himfelf, it mvlt bee in his

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