2, V irec` io>1ts [orgettìiz and keeping be the work of a great part of your life. Let me therefore intreate this one thing of you, that when you feel the want of any Grace, you would not prefcntly bend all your thoughtsupon the enquiry, Whether it be true or no : but rather fay to your fa; fee trying ii a great and difficult, a long and tedious work. : I ma? be tlo s many years about it, and ¡ofbly be unrefclvedfttill. ItI f ould.conclude that I have no grace, I may be miffken ; andfo I May, if think that I have it. I may inquire of friends and A'l niflerslong, andyet be left in doubt ; it is therefore my jureît way tofee ; prof ently to obtain it, if l have it sot, and to increafe it if Ihave it: and Iam certain none of that labor will be loll : toget more is theW y to know I have it. But perhaps you will fay, How fhould I get more Grace ? that is a bufinefs of greater difficulty then lb. I Anfwer, Undrftand what I told you before, that as the beginningofGrace is in yourUnderftand- i;nc, fo the he -Art and life of it is in your Will :and the Affet`fions and pafsionate part are but the fruits and branches. if therefore your Grace be weak, it is chiefly in an atnwill nEnefr to yield to Chrift and his Word and Spirit. Now how fhould an unwilling foul be made willing ? Why thus, i. Pray conflantly as you are able, for a willing mind, and yielding inclinable heart to Chrift. 2. Hear conftantly thole Preachers that bend their doftrine to inform your underftandingof the great necefsity and excel- lency of Chrift, and Grace, and Glory ; and to perfivade the Will with the moft forcible Argu- rnents. A perfwading quickning Ivliniftry, that helps to excite your Graces and draw up you heart to Chrift,
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