2 Of the Manner, never recovers; but and if he dy riot pre- fently, yet the longer he lives, he becomes the weaker and weaker íh11, why ? The Heart of him was wounded : Hence John's Hear- ers rejoiced in the Light, but it was for a Sea- fon; a continuing growing Faith (peaks a deep rooted Faith. I know there may be vreat Perfwafions of the Truth of divine Things, fo as there may be great Sorrow for Sin, great Joy in Chrift, Horror under Senfe of Wrath, yea and all there in a great- er Meafure in fore Reprobates, than in fome of the Saints of God : But here is no Heart- Perfwafion, this Perfwafion reacheth not the Body of Death ; there Perfwafions Attended either with Horror or Joys, proceeding but from an external Principle,and being wrought on the Soul, rather than in the Soul, from a- ny Principle of Life, they are not to be noti- ced. The Agent we fpe Pent, proceeding from the Spirit of God as the Principle of Faith in, and united with the Man, not from the Spirit working ex- trinfecally on the Man : As it is with a 3VIan overtaken with a Malignant Fever, when Nature is much debilitated, and Hu- mours increafe and prevail, then ye would think the Fick Man to be very rc n fcacc keep much as two or three Me him in his Bed ; But doth this proceed from any Strength ,of Nature ?. No indeedd,
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