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"Nature is ready to flinch but I am given to believe
it is the Lord's will that his servants after multiplied
experience of his helping & delivering hand
should be so established on the immovable rock
as to be able to endure hardness as good Soldiers
to live by faith & not be sight for a season &
that as long as he pleaseth & to say without
dissimulation & without reserve under every
trial meted out to them be his hold hand It
is the Lord let him do as seemeth him
good. Perhaps many trials many deep baptisms
yet unproved by me may be necessary
for me to grasp through before I can come up to
and abide steafastly in this blesses renunciation
of my own will but this is the mark
the goal at which I aim. And it is the desire
of my soul that the Lord's hand may not
spare nor his eye have piety until he brings
forth Judgement unto perfect victory until all
that is in me bows to his sceptre until I am
perfectly renovated and can render up all
body soul and spirit as a living & unreserved