Part 31 (1/2)

_WA_ Yes, yes, reat, and able to punish too; and soeance, he lets fly his anger to destroy sinners and make examples; many are cut off in their sins

_Wife_ But no makee kill you yet; then he tell you, ain with hiry at other mans?

_WA_ No, indeed, oodness; and he would be infinitely just if he destroyed me as he has done other men

_Wife_ Well, and yet no kill, no makee you dead! What you say to him for that? You no tell him tankee for all that too!

_WA_ I a, that is true

_Wife_ Why he no ood better? You say he makee you

_WA_ He made me as he made all the world; 'tis I have deforoodness, and have made myself an abominable wretch

_Wife_ I wish you ry; I no do bad wicked ting

[Here Will Atkins said his heart sunk within hiht to know God, and he such a wicked wretch that he could not say one word to her about God, but what the reproach of his own carriage would make most irrational to her to believe; nay, that already she could not believe in God, because he that was so wicked was not destroyed]

_WA_ My dear, you mean you wish I could teach you to know God, not God to know you, for he knows you already, and every thought in your heart

_Wife_ Why then he knohat I say to you now; he knoish to know him; how shall me knoho makee me?

_WA_ Poor creature, he must teach thee, I cannot teach thee; I'll pray to hiive me that I am unworthy to teach thee

[The poor felloas in such an agony at her desiring hi to know him, that he said he fell down on his knees before her, and prayed to God to enlighten her e of Jesus Christ, and to pardon his sins, and accept of his being the unworthy instruion; after which he sat down by her again, and their dialogue went on]

NB This was the timehim kneel down and lift up his hands

_Wife_ What you put down the knee for? What you hold up the hand for?

What you say? Who you speak to? What is that?

_WA_ My dear, I bow my knees in token of my submission to Him that made me: I said O to him, as you call it, and as you say your old men do to their idol Benamuckee; that is, I prayed to him

_Wife_ What you say O to him for?

_WA_ I prayed to hi, that you may know him, and be accepted by him

_Wife_ Can he do that too?

_WA_ Yes, he can; he can do all things