If I heard that sudden death happened to others;
8. But especially, when I thought of myself, that I must quickly
come to judgment.
Chr. And could you at any time, with ease, get off the guilt of
sin, when by any of these ways it came upon you?
Hope. No, not I, for then they got faster hold of my conscience;
and then, if I did but think of going back to sin, (though my
mind was turned against it,) it would be double torment to me.
Chr. And how did you do then?
Hope. I thought I must endeavour to mend my life; for else,
thought I, I am sure to be damned.
Chr. And did you endeavour to mend?
Hope. Yes; and fled from not only my sins, but sinful company
too; and betook me to religious duties, as prayer, reading,
weeping for sin, speaking truth to my neighbours, &c. These
things did I, with many others, too much here to relate.
Chr. And did you think yourself well then?
Hope. Yes, for a while; but at the last, my trouble came
tumbling upon me again, and that over the neck of all my
reformations.
Chr.
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