Spiritual Peace andComfort. 311 For it is pofl'ible that youmay exceed in the meafure of your Griefs. You muff therefore firí.t be refolved wherein the Truth of laving Gracedotty confia;.and then in all your failings and weakneffes firft know, whether they contradict fincerity it felf, and are filch as may give juft caufe to queftionyour fincerity: If they be not(as the ordinary infirmities ofBelievers are not) then you may and rriuÍt be humbled "for them, but you may not doubt of your Salvation for them. I told youbefore,by what marks youmay dif. cernyour fincerity, that is, wherein the nature of Pa- ving faith and holinefs Both confift : Keep that in your eye : and as long as you find that lure and clear, let nothing make you doubt ofyour Right to Chrift and Glory. But, alas, how people do con - tradic the will of God in this ! when youhave fin- ned, God would have youbewail your folly and un- kind dealing, and flye to mercy through Chrill : and this you will not do : But he would not have you tor- ment your felt with fears of Damnation, and quefti- oning his Love : and yet this you will do. You may difcern by this that Humiliation and Reformation are lure of God, mans heart is fo backward to it : and that vexations, doubts and fears in true Chrifti- ans that thould becomfortable are not of od,mans nature is fo prone to them (though the ungodly that fhould fear andduubt are as backward to it.) I think it will not be unfeafonable here to lay down the particular Doubts that ufually trouble fin cere Believers, and fee how far they may be juft,and how far unjuft and cauflefs ; and ruoft of them fihall be frommy own former experience ; and inch as I have been mo[t_troubled with my fell, and the reit Z 4 filch
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