My religious concern continued, during my abode here, but not at all times alike. I went altogether on a legal, self-sufficient plan—I asked mercy of God, but not for grace to help in time of need. The consequence was, that the best resolutions I made, were too weak to bear the shock of temptation, and I was too often carried into such extravagancies from the right, that all my hopes were slain, and I had all my religion to begin afresh. I strove against sin and folly, but got no ground, because I strove in my own strength.

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