124 Vireaions farRating andkeeping fort at will,and all was fealed up to them prefently by the Witnefs of the Spirit in their own Conceits Whence this came, judge you : I told you my judge- ment before. Sure I am that the fudden loofnefs of their lives, anfwering their ignorant, look, ungo- fpel -like doárinedid certifie me, that the fpirit of Comfort was not their Comforter : For he is alto a Spirit ofHolinefs,and comforteth men by the means ofa holy Gofpel, which bath precepts and threat. pings as well as Promifes. 2, And as theexperience of the Rate of Believers affurethus that few ofthem attain to Certainty ; fo experienceof the imperfedionof their underftanding thews us , that fewofthem are immediately capable of it. For how few Believers be there that under - fraud well, what is found evidence, and what not ? Nay how many Learned men have taught them , that the leaf' unfeigned Delire ofgrace,is the Grace it felf ( as Come fay) or at leaft a certain evidence of it (as others fay :) Whereas, alas, how many have unfeignedly defired many Graces, and yet have De- fired the Glory and Profits of the world fo much more, that they have mifcaried and perifhed ? How many have taught them , that the leaft unfeigned Love toGod or to the Brethren, is a certainMark of faving Grace ? When as many a one hath unfeig- nedly loved God and the Brethren, who yet have loved houfe, land, credit, pleafure, and life fomuch more, that God bath been thruft as it were intoa corner, and bath had but the worlds leavings ; and the poor Saints have had little compaflionor relief from them,nor would be lookt on in times of danger and difgrace.As daflin and theSchoolmen ufe to, fay, Wicked
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