J 3 0 DireRims' forgetting and keeping thofe Texts that are for it, are not fo exprefs as fully to fatisfie them. Betides, that the examples of thefe ten years lafi paft have done more toJagger many fober wife Chriftians in this Point, then all the Ar- guments that ever were ufed by Papifts,Arminians,or any other : to lee what kind ofmen in fome places have fallen, and how far ; as I am unwilling further tomention. But I think by this time I have perfwaded you that a proper Certainty of out falvation is not fo common a thing as force controverfal Doctors, or force fell- conceited Profeffors do take it to be. And therefore that you mutt not lay all your comfort on your Af- furance ofSalvation. As for them who are tuft high- ly confident both of the docirine of the Certain Per- fevcrance of every Believer, meetly upon tradition, and prejudice, or elfe upon weak grounds which will not bear them out in their confidence; & are as cone fident of their own falvation on as [lender grounds, having never well underaood the Nature of faving Grace, Sincerity,Examination, nor Affurance ; nor underftoud the caufes of doubting, which might elfe have finked them ; I will not call their greateft con- fidence, by the nameof Affurance or Certainty of falvation, though it be accompanied with never fo great boaftings, or pretences or expreífìonsof the higheft Joyes. And for your felf I advife you firft ufe thofe comforts which thofc may have who come (fort ofAffurance,
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