AIMMEMEMIEllr Spiritual Peace and Comfort. 315 manner of their Converfion : yet ufually Ionic con- jedures theymay make : And ufually their humilia- tion is not fodeep. Others,as is faid,have the faving workings of theSpirit in their very Childhood, and thefe can leafl of all difcern the certain time or order. The ordinaryway of Gods dealing with thofe that are Childrenof godly Parents, and have good Edu- cation, is, by giving them fame likingofGodly per- Tons and ways,l'orne Conrcience of fin, force Repen- tance: and recourfe by prayer to God in (hrift for mercy, yet youthful lutis and folly, and ill company, do ufuallymuch ftifle it: till at laft by force Afflií- on, or Sermon, or Book, or good Company, God fetteth home the work; and maketh them more Re- folute and Victorious Chriftians. Thefe perfons now can remember that they had convkiions and ftirrings ofConfcience when they were young, and the other fore-mentioned works : perhaps they can remember force more notable rowfings and awakenings long after, and perhaps they have had many fuch fits and fteps, and the workhath ftood at this pals for a long time, even many years together. 'But at which ofall thefe Changes it was that the foul began to be fa-. vingly fincere, I think is next to an impoffibility to difcern. According to that experience which I have had of theRate of Chriftians , I am forced to Judge that moft of the Children of the Godly that ever are Renewed, are Renewed in their Childhood, or much towards it then done, and that among forty ChriRi- ans there is not one that can certainly name the moneth in which his foul firft began to be fincere and among a thoufand Chriftians, I think not one can name thcbour. The Sermon which awakened them
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