did mourn as a dove, mine eyes ƒail with looking upward. Lord I am oppreʃʃed, undertake for me. Iʃai. 38. 14. I could tell the Lord as Hezekiah, Ver. 3. Remember now Lord, I beʃeech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth. Now had I time to examine all my ways. My conscience did not accuse me of unrighteousness towards one or another; yet I saw how in my walk with God, I had been a careless creature. As David said, againʃt thee only have I ʃinned. And I might say with the poor publican, God be merciƒul unto me a ʃinner. Upon the Sabbath days I could look upon the sun, and think how people were going to the house of God to have their souls refresh'd, and then home and their bodies also; but I was destitute of both, and might say as the poor prodigal, He would ƒain have ƒilled his belly with the huʃks that the ʃwine did eat, and no man gave unto him. Luke 15. 16. For I must say with him, Father
