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rare instance, of the power of godliness, and of 

 the influence and efficacy of the Christian Re- 

 ligion, upon the minds and hearts of those who 

 truly believe the Gospel ; (for, there are as many 

 instances of this as there are good Christians in 

 the world, though it seldom happens that the 

 same kind of evidence can he had for their being 

 so, that is here produced in his case ;) but as a 

 new and fresh instance of that private divine 

 life, which is peculiar to the most exemplary 

 men, and of the extraordinary comforts and 

 pleasures they are wont to take, in their fre- 

 quent, though secret correspondences, with 

 Heaven. When the exterior and interior life 

 are found to tally so exactly, they confirm and 

 bear witness to each other, as - well as to the 

 "^uth and sufficiency of the religion, or institu- 

 tion, from whence they are derived; and are 

 an intetmal proof of the certainty, us well as an 

 tMernal evidence of the excellency, of the Christian 

 Revelation. ^' -^v**) 



All that remains for the reader to be apprized 

 ^-^,^1^'; that all the matters of fact which are 

 Wpoirted in the following sheets, are either takeii 



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