Part 7 (1/2)

_Wife_--Why He no ood better? you say He makee you

_WA_--He made me as He made all the world: it is I have deforoodness, and made myself an abominable wretch

_Wife_--I wish you ry--I no do bad wicked thing

[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 had told him that 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 will pray to Hiive me, that 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 This was the timehim kneel down and hold 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 all 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 your old men do to their idol Benamuckee; that is, I prayed to Him

_Wife_--What say you 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

_Wife_--But now He hear what you say?

_WA_--Yes, He has bid us pray to Him, and promised to hear us

_Wife_--Bid you pray? When He bid you? How He bid you? What you hear Him speak?

_WA_--No, we do not hear Him speak; but He has revealed Hireat loss to make her understand that God has revealed Himself to us by His word, and what His as; but at last he told it to her thus]

_WA_--God has spoken to soood men in former days, even froood men by His Spirit; and they have written all His lan in a book

_Wife_--Me no understand that; where is book?