My sorrows have all been for a slighted gospel, and my
vengeance has been wreaked on its adversaries. Therefore, in the
might of Heaven, I will sit down and write: I will let the wicked
of this world know what I have done in the faith of the promises,
and justification by grace, that they may read and tremble, and
bless their gods of silver and gold that the minister of Heaven was
removed from their sphere before their blood was mingled with
their sacrifices.
I was born an outcast in the world, in which I was destined to act
so conspicuous a part. My mother was a burning and a shining
light, in the community of Scottish worthies, and in the days of
her virginity had suffered much in the persecution of the saints.
But it so pleased Heaven that, as a trial of her faith, she was
married to one of the wicked; a man all over spotted with the
leprosy of sin. As well might they have conjoined fire and water
together, in hopes that they would consort and amalgamate, as
purity and corruption: She fled from his embraces the first night
after their marriage, and from that time forth his iniquities so
galled her upright heart that she quitted his society altogether,
keeping her own apartments in the same house with him.
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