4ir'ittult Peace and Coìiifort, 9 and hid the workers of iniquity depart from him, Ä4t. 7. 23. Now can any man onearth tell us juft how great or ho.v often finning will 1tand, with :true Grace , and hów Much will not ? who cart end thofe piandual bounds in the Word ofGod I conclùde therefore , that no minif er or leaft , none wlio is no wifer thin 1 am, can give it true difcernable difference between the worn Of Saints,and the belt of the unfancbified . or theweakeit kegre >of true Grace, and the higheft of common Grace ; and fo tò help filch weak Chriftiàns to true Affurance Of their falvatio a. 2. fait as this is impoífible to be declared by thé Teacher- ,fo Much F:iore is it impofiible to be difeern- ed by the perföns themfelves, ( yea though it could porribly he declared to Mini c ) and that for thole Realons. i. troth the nature of the thinO, Small thingsare hardly difcerned. A little is next to none. 2. From the great darknefs ofmans t iiderítandiñg, and hiì9 unacquaintednefs with li mfelf ( both thenature fa- eúlties and motions of hi foul naturally confide red, and the moral flare; difpofitions and motions ofit, ) and is it likely that lo blind an ete can difcern the fmallef thing,and that in fo firing anddark a pi;ce? every purblind man cannot fee an atome, or a pin, efpecially in the dark. 3.The heart is deceitful above all things as well as dark ; 1611 Of feimings,, counter- feits and falle pretences: And a child in Grace is, not abler() difcover its juglings, and underftand as book where almott every word is equivocal or myfte- rious. 4. The heart is molt confufed, as well asdark and deceitful : It is like a houfe or flop of . tooiÿ, where all things ire thrown together on a heap. arid, K á nothing'
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