11 Direth onsforgetting and 1keepiiig though you know not jufl the time or manner of your receiving of it, yet you may ncverthelefcbe 4JJ'iaredof Salvation by it. Search therefore what you are, and how your will is difpofed and refolved, and berm your Life is ordered, rather then to know how you became fuch. I know the workings of the fpirit on the foul may be difcerned becaufe they flit up difcernable Adings in our own fpirits. The forilt Convictions, Confideration, Refolutions, and Affe- &ions are no infenfible things : But yet thework of Graceufually begins in common Grace, and fo pro- ceeds bydegrees till it come to fpecial laving Grace, even as the work ofnature doth, firft producing the matter, and then introducing the form ; fira proU ducing the embryo, before it introduce a Rational foul. And as no child knows the time or mannerof his own Formation, Vivification or Reception of that foul, fo I think, few true Relievers can fay, Ju!1 fuch a day , or at fuch a Sermon I became a true Juftified, Sanctified man. That was the hour ofyour true Converfiôn and Juftification,whenyou flrft pre- ferredGod, andChrift, and Gracebefore all things in tVi World, avid d°liberately and Jeriaufly Refolvedta take Chriftfor Jour Savioaár and Governour, andgive upyour fëlf to him to bePaved, taught andgoverned, and to obey him faithfully to the death againfl all temp tationi,whatfoeveryou Jhorld loft or fuf tr by it, Now I wocld but ask thofe very Chriftians that think they do know thevery Serníoñ that converted them Did that Sermon bring you to this Refolution ? Or was it not only fame troubling rowfng ,preparation hereto'? I think fore defperate ficknefs or the like iiifflidiorkii avery uÍuá1'gneans to bring Refoluuons te
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