17.0 Comfort by errours,, how wrought. I have known force that have lived long in doubts and fears of damnation , who have turned Anabaptifis, and fuddenly had comfort : Andyet in a fhort time they forfook that Se& and turned to another. I have known thole allo that have lived many years in rimerons complaints,and fearsof Hell ; and they have turned to the Anti- uomians, and fuddenly been comforted: And others have turned Arminians, which is clean contrary, and been comforted : And others have but heard of the Doftrine of perfellion in this life, and fuddenly been paff their fears, as if hearing of perfe&ion had made them perfe& : And from thence they have turned Famili/ts, and at laff fhew'd their perfe&ion by fornication and licenti- obfnefs and -meer Apollafe ; who yet liv'd very confcionably and blamelefly, as long as they lived in their fears and troubles. The reafon of all this is plain to any judicious Obferver. t . Theperfons are ignorant and ne- ver had the right knowledge and skilful improve- ment, of the found .do&rive which at firfc they Teemed to embrace. And 2. the power of con- ceit and fancy brought them !comfort or quiet- nefs in their change. For they thought before,that if they had not fomewhat extraordinary they could laveno affurance of falvation : And while they held that found Do&rine which all about them held' as well as they, and found no extraordinary power of it,on their hearts, they perceived no difference between themfelves and others : But when they hadentertained new opinions, and en- tered into a new ,Se.& , which confidently told their, that they only were in the right, they had then
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