The Saints natlghr, and commonly prove atrer more fierce oppofires to grace and firu::eriry, than thofe that never made any iliewofgoodneffe. :z. Some others there are of unfound convars, wbo after they have once putonanoutwardforme .· of Religion, and fome other good things, by the power of temporary faith, hold on in its plodding courfe of formall Chrifiianity:~ all their Jife long, and after die that formalldeath I have heretofore defcribed unto you, but for all this ·their faith is. frill temporary~ their converfion temporary ; Be– caufe rather than they will hazard their temporary happineffe, they fiill yeelJ to the current of the times) and their own€ fenfuall corruptions, though they never fall qt;tite away to their forma11 notori– oufneffe, as doe the former~ but eftfoones recover themfclves untill rhenext time of triall, of their chiefe carn~llcontentment, and fmarting pertecu– tion ; thus they are in and our, off and on, toand fro in matters of Re:igion, never very farreoutfor any long feafon, and yet never forward enough to Cave their foules : The inconfiant confrancie of fuch converts as rhefe, is worth nothing, becaufe it followes and is fafhioned by the meafure of the times: That confl:anciewhich isanote and compa– nion ofa found converfion~is fquared aedpropor– rioned by the line and rule ofthe Word of life. See what this latter confiancie is, in the third fpeciall dilference betweene temporary and faving fait b. Tfuus farre of the difference betweene favi'tJg and temporary fairh in poinrand converfion. See the twelve marks ofa found converfion laid downo before. 3. As
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