Yet I must acknowledge this with grief and shame concerning myself; notwithstanding all my knowledge of this truth, and my own experience and observation of God's gracious dealings with me, and other good men, my feet were almost gone; my faith in God's promises and providence was almost overthrown by the three of this temptation; and I was almost ready to repent of my piety, Psalms 73:13, and to follow the example of ungodly men. Had well nigh slipped, Heb. were almost poured forth, like water upon the ground, which is unstable, and runs hither and thither, with great disorder and uncertainty, till it be irrecoverably lost. So was I almost transported by my own unruly passions into unworthy thoughts of God, and a sinful course of life.

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