ABSTRACT

ning towards my child, :I called to remem-v brance the Lords, tender bowels towards his children, for whom he had given his only Son? wheii I confldered the-breach that . the Lord*' had made in my family, I beheld how terrible ’ it was to make a breach in his family. Then the worke I was ingaged in, this Sin of Separation, appeared nakedly unto me to be no other then a wounding of Chrifts body; which is his Church, the.Chtuch vvhighhehath purchafed with his ov.vn blood: I then looked on Sepa­ ration to be a dividing of/Chrift. Trlily I be-, held it with terrbr, this fin of wounding of Chrift it made a wound in my foulQj which was kept open in a terrible manner* the Lord r;> bringing to my remembrance his Jufticeand fevewty, and vvrath revealed from heaven on families and nations, yea on his own people, ever fi.nee the beginning of the world: as alfo his Judgments which are in the earth to this day , from Gcnefts to the Revelation was brought to my remembrance, and kept hard upon me. Having thefe Impreflions on my - Spirit, I was almoft overwhelmed,and in mine own apprehenfion upon the Borders of Hell,