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accompanied
with a lively sense of the excellency of Christ, and His sufficiency to
satisfy for the sins of the whole world. She then thought of that
expression, It is a pleasant thing for the eyes to behold the sun; which
words then seemed to her to be very applicable to Jesus Christ. By these
things her mind was led into such contemplations and views of Christ, as
filled her exceeding full of joy. She told her brother, in the morning,
that she had seen (i.e. in realizing views by faith) Christ the last
night, and that she had really thought that she had not knowledge enough
to be converted; but, says she, God can make it quite easy! On Monday
she felt all day a constant sweetness in her soul. She had a repetition
of the same discoveries of Christ three mornings together, and much in
the same manner, at each time, waking a little before day; but brighter
and brighter every day.
At the last time, on Wednesday morning, while in the enjoyment of a
spiritual view of Christ's glory and fullness, her soul wa
Izak van Langevelde
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