Serpoo z, sffrroac rrpof.ribk. z . That a believer without extraordinary revelation, might certainly know that he bath juflifying faith,and unfeigned love toChrif+,and that he is upright and fincere with God. 2. That there is an infallible connexion, between there fpecial gracesá and future glory. 7hat a roan may certainly knowhisfincerity, faith, anti love, is evidenced by thefe Particarlars. I. Cod hach said down in his word certain infallible yvW t'ayaa la, Ern propofit :, Chara6iers, Signs, Difcoveries, of lincerity, Juflifying faith, and Lin- 0I3 wlvch ihe4 feigned love to God, betides other topical heads, we may know it from eth that a man the effe&s which it doth alvvaies produce; that where I fee fuch an 11 "ghtknory he bath faving effe t of faith, I know there is faith : And Papifis muff make us caf+ Grace. away all Logick, if we ¡hall not have this granted. I fee the broad Potato cfeatt in clear light fhining in mine eyes,therefore I know the Sun is rifen ; and elre effcctus po- when we fee any iign, that is concomitant, or confequent, infeparablen'ti" `4uft* and proper to the thing of .which it is a fgn, we know that that thing is. A man that is tickand week, yet feels his heart to leap and pant, he knows he is a living man, a man that difcourfeth, and rationally in- ferret h one thing from another,knoweththat he hash a reafonable foul, and that he is a man. There are as certainChoraPers in the word of God of fincerity, faith and Love, as there are plain injonUions that we fhould be fincere, believe and Love :. Would God command a man to examine himfelf whether he be in the faith, if there were not rules fu- table and fu(licienr, to dire& us co know the nature of ftiith,, and wherein it doth confifi ? 2. God bath given to a man, a power to under- i+and, confider, deliberate, acid reflec} upon him- Evñ ,, ? ',,;. i < Co ñv Pelf, and judge of himfelf and of his wales, herein a ..dAri ,,,, pa 7.ìv T =;:,: man is above a bruire ; abeafi likes his paflure, but Tav a av7,;. propriety. Certainly a man that is. Auto>ai;ì..1. z I. ff Ia. Eciit.c.,t., cannot know his : not a flranger to himfelf, but a diligent :obferver of ,126,P, the adiingsof his foul, might know what. they are, .444), ,s ,1a, )tits, is yea, and difcern the moral riodif:catiòns of thole actic , v o '"é a' y 7 a ' ir .IXe For Confcicnce is privy to the principle, and f]arirg of iv.04711 á.--w d orrr aaings, to the manner and the end. If I love a mgt, t1c'aa. L.i I. fTt. man, by refleaing upon my felt, Iknow I love hint, and {#call this noble power of the foul be only ufelefs, in theurea teft concernments Of my foul? . Can I know what I approve, eifeem moil, and delight in moil, and breathe; and pant after mofi, in other things and not in-this ? it is true,confcience is naturally blind,in fpiritual things, but yet dire&ed by the word, and inlightned by the fpirit
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