I say, beholding with the eye of my mind,
which the God of heaven had opened in me, the marks of God's finger and
hand visibly in this testimony, from the clearness of the principle, the
power and efficacy of it, in the exemplary sobriety, plainness, zeal,
steadiness, humility, gravity, punctuality, charity, and circumspect care
in the government of church-affairs, which shined in his and their life
and testimony, that God employed in this work, it greatly confirmed me
that it was of God, and engaged my soul in a deep love, fear, reverence,
and thankfulness for his love and mercy therein to mankind: in which mind
I remain, and shall, I hope, through the Lord's strength, to the end of
my days.
II. In his testimony or ministry, he much laboured to open truth to the
people's understandings, and to bottom them upon the principle and
principal, Christ Jesus the light of the world; that by bringing them to
something that was from God in themselves, they might the better know and
judge of him and themselves.
III. He had an extraordinary gift in opening the scriptures. He would
go to the marrow of things, and show the mind, harmony, and fulfilling of
them, with much plainness, and to great comfort and edification.
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