While I was thus gathering strength, my thoughts ran exceedingly upon this Scripture, “I will deliver thee”; and the impossibility of my deliverance lay much upon my mind, in bar of my ever expecting it; but as I was discouraging myself with such thoughts, it occurred to my mind that I pored so much upon my deliverance from the main affliction, that I disregarded the deliverance I had received, and I was as it were made to ask myself such questions as these—viz. Have I not been delivered, and wonderfully too, from sickness—from the most distressed condition that could be, and that was so frightful to me? and what notice had I taken of it?
Mientras reunía energías, pensé mucho en la frase te salvaré y la imposibilidad de mi salvación me impedía cultivar esperanza alguna. Pero, mientras me desanimaba con estos pensamientos, se me ocurrió que pensaba tanto en la liberación de mi mayor aflicción que no estaba viendo el favor que había recibido y comencé a hacerme las siguientes preguntas: ¿No he sido liberado, además, milagrosamente, de la enfermedad y de la situación más desesperada que puede haber y que tanto me asustaba?