3 .2 .ireions for&tti ig and keeping of God to make you Willing, you fhall find that God bath not appointed you this means invain, and that this way will be more profitable toyou then all your complainings. See therefore when you are at thevery lower, that you forfake not the Comforts of General Grace. Arid indeed thofe that deny any General Grace or Redemption, Do leave poor Chriftians in a very lamentable Condition. For, alas, Affurance of fpe- dal Grace (yea or a high probability) is not fo com- mon a thing as meer Difputers againtlDoubting have irnagned. And when a poor Chriflian is beaten from his Afturance ( which fewhave) he bath no- thing but Probabilities : and when he bath no confi- dent probable perfwalion of fpecial Grace, where is he then? and what bath he left to fupport his foul ? I will not fo far now meddle with that controverfie, as to open further how this opinion tends to leave molt Chriftians in desperation, for all the pretences it bath found ? and I had done more, but that Ge- neral Redemption, or Satisfac` ion is commonly taught in the maintaining of the General Suffici- ency of ir, though men underftand not how they contradict themfelves. But perhaps you will fay, This is cold comfort for I may as well argue thus, Chrift Will damn fin® ners : I. m a finret, therefore he Will damn rse : as to argue thus, Chrift WilfPavefanners : I am afsn- wer : therefore he will fave me. I anfwer : There is noPhew offoundneas in either of thefe Arguments. ix is not a c17taint y that Chrift will fave you, that can be gathered from General Grace alone : that muff be had from affurance of fpecial Grace fuper- added
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