312 Direflionsforgetting andkeeping fuch as are incident to true Chriftians, and too ufual with them. DOUBT 1. INave oft heard and read in the bell Divines , that Grace is not born with tu , and therefore Satan haste always pofefan before GhrifiG and keeps that po f fefon in Peace, tillC rlrif come andb'nd him and call him out ; and that this is fo great a Work that it cannot choofe but beobfrued, and for ever remembred by the foulwhere it is wrought ; yea, thefeveralfleps andpa(ages of it may be all obferved : firfi cafling down, and then liftingup ffrf Wounding and killing, and then healing and reviving. Rut Ihave not obfer- ved the diflintt parts and mirages ofthis change in me, nay, 1knowofno filch fuddenobirvable change atall : I cannot remember that ever I wís fir'? k.ilded and then revived : Nor do I knout by ghat A1niFier nor at what Sermon,or other means that Work Which is upon Mt Was wrought : Nonor what day or moneth or year it was begun. 1 haveElided infenfibly into a Profefon ofRelition, Iknow not hoW : And therefore Ifear that 1 amnot/neere, and the Workoftrace Regeneration Was never yet wrought upon my Soul. ANSWER. Will lay down the full anfwer to this in thefePro- pofitions, 1. It is true that Grace is not Natural to
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