I could not help running into new sins continually; but then I was
mercifully dealt with, for I was often made to repent of them
most heartily, by reason of bodily chastisements received on
these delinquencies being discovered. I was particularly prone to
lying, and I cannot but admire the mercy that has freely forgiven
me all these juvenile sins. Now that I know them all to be blotted
out, and that I am an accepted person, I may the more freely
confess them: the truth is, that one lie always paved the way for
another, from hour to hour, from day to day, and from year to
year; so that I found myself constantly involved in a labyrinth of
deceit, from which it was impossible to extricate myself. If I
knew a person to be a godly one, I could almost have kissed his
feet; but, against the carnal portion of mankind, I set my face
continually. I esteemed the true ministers of the gospel; but the
prelatic party, and the preachers up of good works I abhorred, and
to this hour I account them the worst and most heinous of all
transgressors.
There was only one boy at Mr. Witch's class who kept always the
upper hand of me in every part of education.
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