and so it may be more fit to speak freely of her than
of living instances: though I am under far greater disadvantages, on
other accounts, to give a full and clear narrative of her experiences,
than I might of some others; nor can any account be given but what has
been retained in the memories of her friends, of what they have heard
her express in her lifetime.
She was of an intelligent family: there could be nothing in her
education that tended to enthusiasm, but rather to the contrary extreme.
It is in no-wise the temper of the family to be ostentatious of
experiences, and it was far from being her temper. She was, before her
conversion, to the observation of her neighbors, of a sober and
inoffensive conversation; and was a still, quiet, reserved person. She
had long been infirm of body, but her infirmity had never been observed
at all to incline her to be notional or fanciful, or to occasion any
thing of religious melancholy. She was under awakenings scarcely a week,
before there seemed to be plain evidence of her being savingly
converted.
She was first awakened in t
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