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through His death and resurrection, according to the purpose of God in the covenant made with the Son and Holy Ghost before the foundations of the earth were laid. Jesus was - and is - the one altogether lovely, and most precious to my soul, and He is my song all the day long. The fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth chapters of the gospel according to John, and the first and second of unclear, although I dwell much upon the III to the IX of Romans and other previous portions of Scripture were exceedingly precious. The whole scheme of salvation was opened up to my mind so dearly, and I was permitted so to revel in the love of God, that at times I seemed to feel that I was already in heaven. I daily followed the blessed Lord in His travels about the country; and in my spirit I could see Him as He performed each miracle; as He sat by the well in Tamaria?; as He walked upon the sea; as He slept during the storm, during His agony in the garden of unclear, His unclear and buffeting; while being mocked and crowned with thorns, and as He hung upon the cross, and I wept scalding tears that so much innocence and holiness should thus suffer for ungrateful man, who was so utterly unworthy of the very least thought of the Almighty. And the more I contemplated my own heart and thought of my past sins, the more wonderful it seemed to me that God should have been so mindful of me,