Spiritual Peace and Comfort. 323 ther of vice againil nature. There is a common Grace of God that goeth along with common Truths, and according to the meafure of their obe- dience to the Truth,fuch was the change it wrought; which was done by common Truths, and common Grace together, but not by their fa;fe mixtures at all. But God bath annexed his fpecial Grace only to the fpecial Truths of the Gofpel or Chriftian-Religion. If thereforeGod do by common Gracework a great change on a Heathen by the means of common Truths, and do by his fpecial Grace work a greater and fpecial change on you, by the means of the cìal truths of the Gofpel, have you any reafon here- upon to fufpe& your condition? or shouldyou not rather both admire that providence and common Grace which is manifeiled without the Church, and humbly , rejoycingly and thankfully embrace that fpecial laving Grace which is manifefted to your felf above them ? 2. And for that which ou (peak of Education, you have as much caufe to doubt of your converfi- on, becaufe it was wrought by publike preaching , as becaufe it was wrought by Education. For i.$oth are by the Gofpel : For it is the Gofpel that your Parents taught you, as well as which the Preacher teachethyou 2.. I have fbewed you, that if Parents did not that fully negleet their duties, the Word Publikely preached would not be the ordinray in- firument of Regeneration to the Children of true Chriftians, but would only build them up, and dire& them in the faith, and in obedience. The proof is very plain : If we fhould fpeak nothing of the In- tereft of our Infants in the Covenant- Grace upon Aa2 the'
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