3 i4 Virec` ionsforgetting andkeeping Grace, mencannot know the juft day or 'time when they began to be in the fate of Grace. And though men thathave long lived in Prophanefs,& are chang- ed fuddenly, may conjedure veer at the time : yet thofe that God hath beenworking on early in their youth, yea or afterwards by flow degrees, cannot know the time of their firft receiving the Sprit. 8. TheMemories of all men are fo flippery, and one thought fo fuddenly thrult out by another, that ma- ny a thoufand fouls forget thofe particular workings which they have truly felt. 9. The Memories of Children are far weaker then ofothers : and there- fore it is lets probable that all the Spirits workings íhould by them be remembred. 9. And the motions ofGrace are fo various,fometimes furring one Affe- aion,and fometimes another; sometimes beginning with fmaller motions, and then moving more ftron-- ly and fenfibly, that its ufual for later motions which are more deeply affe&ing, to make us overlook all the former,or take them for nothing, io.Goddealeth very variouflywith his Chofen in their Converfion, aslo the accidentals and circumftances of the work. Some he calleth not home till they have run a long race in the way of Rebellion, in open drunkenneff, (wearing, worldlinefs,and derifion ofholinefs : There be ufually humbleth more deeply , and theycan bet- ter obferve the feveral fteps ofthe Spirit in thework (and yet not always neither) Others he fo reftrain- ethin their youth, that though they have not laving Grace, yet they are not guilty of any (rofs:fins, but have a liking to the people and ways of God : and yet he doth not ravingly convert them till long after. It is much harder for there to difcern the time or manner
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