Chr. What things are they?
Hope. All the treasures and riches of the world. Also, I
delighted much in rioting, revelling, drinking, swearing, lying,
uncleanness, Sabbath-breaking, and what not, that tended to
destroy the soul. But I found at last, by hearing and
considering of things that are divine, which indeed I heard of
you, as also of beloved Faithful that was put to death for his
faith and good living in Vanity Fair, that the end of these
things is death. And that for these things' sake cometh the
wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
Chr. And did you presently fall under the power of this
conviction?
Hope. No, I was not willing presently to know the evil of sin,
nor the damnation that follows upon the com-
mission of it; but endeavoured, when my mind at first began to
be shaken with the Word, to shut mine eyes against the light
thereof.
Chr. But what was the cause of your carrying of it thus to the
first workings of God's blessed Spirit upon you?
Hope. The causes were -- 1. I was ignorant that this was the
work of God upon me.
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