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.
Intanto ch’io andava riguadagnandole, i miei pensieri correvano incessantemente su quel tratto di scrittura: Ti libererò, laddove l’impossibilità della mia liberazione mi stava sì fitta nell’animo, che troncava ogni mia speranza di ottenerla giammai. Pure intantochè io stava scoraggiandomi con questi pensieri, un altro me ne occorse alla mente.