Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

Upon the 12th of this instant, November 1660, I was desired by some of the friends in the country to come to teach at _Samsell_, by _Harlington_, in _Bedfordshire_. To whom I ma...

_Bun._ And I say further, as to your saying that one man may convince another of sin, and that faith comes by hearing, and that one man may tell another how he should pray, etc....

26. Now therefore I went on in sin with great greediness of mind, still grudging that I could not be so satisfied with it, as I would. This did continue with me about a month, o...

233. Further, the Lord did also lead me into the mystery of union with the Son of God; that I was joined to Him, that I was flesh of His flesh, and bone of His bone; and now was...

268. Wherefore, to be brief; at last, being still desired by the church, after some solemn prayer to the Lord, with fasting, I was more particularly called forth, and appointed...

102. These things did sink me into very deep despair; for I concluded that such things could not possibly be found amongst them that loved God. I often, when these temptations h...

65. Thus I continued above a year, and could not find the place; but at last, casting my eye upon the _Apocrypha_ books, I found it in _Ecclesiasticus_, Eccles. ii. 10. This, at...

IN HIS TAKING HIM OUT OF THE DUNGHILL, AND CONVERTING HIM TO THE FAITH OF HIS BLESSED SON JESUS CHRIST. HERE IS ALSO PARTICULARLY SHEWED, WHAT SIGHT OF, AND WHAT TROUBLES HE HAD...

174. Once as I was walking to and fro in a good man’s shop, bemoaning of myself in my sad and doleful state, afflicting myself with self-abhorrence for this wicked and ungodly t...

_Judge Hale_. To whom he said, Woman, I told thee before I could do thee no good; because they have taken that for a conviction which thy husband spoke at the sessions: and unle...

200. Now while the scriptures lay before me, and laid sin anew at my door, that saying, in Luke xviii. 1, with others, did encourage me to prayer: then the tempter laid again at...

313. I also call all these fools or knaves, that have thus made it any thing of their business to affirm any of the things afore-named of me; namely, That I have been naught wit...

139. But to be brief: one morning as I did lie in my bed, I was, as at other times, most fiercely assaulted with this temptation, _To sell and part with Christ_; the wicked sugg...

In his family he kept up a very strict discipline in prayer and exhortation; being in this like _Joshua_, as the good man expresses it, viz., _Whatsoever others did_, _as for me...