towards the well-grown Devotions, of no less than Whole Days, of Retirement, for the Humiliations of a Repenting Soul. O more Aged Professors of Religion; To what a Tenderness in your walk with God, will you be Awakened; when you see a Child, Reflecting with all the Bitter|ness of Repentance, on miscarriages which few, few among the Children of men, have any Trouble for, take any Notice of!§ 3. WHen she was Twelve Years old, the Resolutions of Piety in her were arrived unto such a Fixa|tion and Establishment, that she came to a very Solemn Transaction with the Glorious GOD. She Entred into His COVENANT; and she did with all possible Solemnity set her Hand unto an Instrument for that purpose, which appears to have been very much her own Drawing up: tho' she had a well-known Copy of another before her. Here it is.The Covenant between God & my own Soul.THE Lord has been very Merciful to me; tho' I have been a very Sinful
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