130 THE HISTORY OF

Then I lifted up my eyes and hands to God,
in gratitude for his goodness to me.

While I was still thinking of these things, «
sudden faintness came over me, and I lay, for
some time, without sense. At length, however,
I recovered: yet I had very great difficulty to
get home to my lodging, where I immediately
laid myself on my bed.

Nor did I leave my bed, till you, Sir, visited
me; and till, by your great kindness to me, my
health and strength were, for a time, in some
degree, restored to me.

 

Then Susan Gray, having finished her story,
fell upon her knees, and, in a most solemn and
affecting manner, renounced all dependence
upon any of her own works or deservings, con-
fessing herself to be a grievous sinner, even one
that could not, without divine help, cease from
sin, and solemnly affirming, that her escape
from the open acts of sin, to which she had
been tempted, had been effected by the power
of God: and she concluded by a solemn act of
praise to the blessed Trinity, her Father, her
Redeemer, and her Sanctifier.

She then arose from her knees, and, turning
to me, my wife, our daughters, and the nurse,
she thanked us for our kindness to her in a way
which made the tears flow afresh from our
eyes; for, as you may suppose, they had often
flowed abundantly before, during the time of
our hearing the sad story of this good girl.

After she had finished her history, she lived