134 T ireElions forgetting and keeping, you defire them : But thoughyou be not Certain of Salvation do not you fee a great likelyhood , a Probability in all this ? Is not your heart railed to a Hope that yet God is merciful to you and means you good ? Doubticfs this you might eafily diícern the fecond thing that I am to (hew you is, that there may much fpiritual Comfort and Peace ofcon- fcience be enjoyed without any Certainty of Salvati- on, even upon thefe forementioned Probabilities. Which I prove thus, a, No doubt but eAdam in innocency had PeaceofConfcience andComfort and Communionwith God, and yet he had no Af furance of Salvation ; I mean either ofcontjrtuing in Paradife, or being tranflatcd to Glory./ For if a e h-d,either he was lure to perfevere in Innocency, and fo tobe glorified, ( But that was no true) or elfe he milli foreknow both that he fhould fall, and be railed again, and faved by Chrift. But this he knew not at all, 2. Experience telsus that the greateft part ofChrifiians on earth do enjoy that Peace and Comfort which they have, without any Certainty of their falvation. 3. The Nature ofthe thing rellethus; that a likelihood of fo greata mercy as everlafting Glory muff needs be a ground ofgreat Comfort. If a poor condemned prifoner do but hear that there is Hopes ofa pardon, fpecial- ly if very probable , it will glad his heart. Indeed if an Angel from Heaven were brought into this flare , it would .be fad to him : But if a devil or a condemned firmer have luck Hope , it muff needs be gladnews to them, The devils have it not, but we have. 3. Let
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