At length his eye fell upon them in the Apocryphal book of Ecclesiasticus.

This, he says, somewhat doubted him at first, as the book was not canonical; but in the end he took courage and comfort from the passage.

"I bless God," he says, "for that word; it was good for me.

That word doth still oftentimes shine before my face." A long and weary struggle was now before him.

"I cannot," he says, "express with what longings and breathings of my soul I cried unto Christ to call me.