12© Diretlïons for getttna and keeping :And then this being all fo, the fourth point is undeniable That it ù hut veil fete Chrifiant t/aat reach to Atrarance ofSalvation. If any think ( as intemperate. r. e hot--fpiritcd men are like enough to charge me) that in all this I countenance the Popifh DorineofDoubting and Uncertainty, and contra- din the common doctrine of the Reformed Divines that write agait& them ; I anfuer, r. 1 docontradi both the Papifts that deny Affurance, and many for. reign Writers,who make it far more Eafie,Common, and Nteceffary then it is (muchmore both them and theAntinomiífs, who place Jufifying faith in it. ) But I Rand in the midi' between both extreams; and 1 think I have the company of moft Englifh Divines. 2. I come not to be of this mind r neerly4by reading flooks,but mainly,by reading my own heart,artd con- fulting my own experience, and theexperience of a verygreat number ofGodly people ofall forts, who have opened their 'hearts tome, for almoft twenty years time. 3. I would intreat the Gainfayers to ftu- dy their ownhearts better for fame confiderable time, and to be more in hearing the cafe and complaints of Godly people ; and.by that time they may happily' Come to be of my mind. 4. See whether all thole bivinesthat have been very practical, and fuccefsfaf in the work of God, and much acquainted with the wayof the Recovery ofloft fouls, be not all of the fame judgement as I in this point, (fuch as ?..Hook- er,' 7o. Rogers, Prelion Sibbs, Bolton, Dod, Culver. Well, &c.) And whether the confidenteft men for the contrrary be not thofe that Rudy Books more then hearts, and fpetid"their dayes in Difputing,and'not in winning fouls to God;from the world
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