Thus my fear banished all my religious hope, all that former confidence in God, which was founded upon such wonderful experience as I had had of His goodness; as if He that had fed me by miracle hitherto could not preserve, by His power, the provision which He had made for me by His goodness.
La crainte bannissait ainsi de mon âme tout mon religieux espoir, toute ma première confiance en Dieu, fondée sur la merveilleuse expérience que j'avais faite de sa bonté; comme si Celui qui jusqu'à cette heure m'avait nourri miraculeusement n'avait pas la puissance de me conserver les biens que sa libéralité avait amassés pour moi.