choice Bed of Spices. the'very firft hour of his converfion, he is in partrenewed.in all parts, all the habits of :grace are infufed into the foul by the Spirit:at once ; 'at-firit converfion, the foul is befpangled with everygrace, though every. -grace is not dam grown up to its full proportion or perfection ; .fo that where there is one grace in truth,- Inere 15 every grace in truth; that foul that can truly andferioufly conclude, that he has any one brace in him, that foul ought to conclude, that there is eve- ry grace in him. Such as diligently fearch the Scripture, fhall find-that true-bleffednefs, .happinefs and falvation is at- tributed to feveral'figns, fometimes to the fear of GOd, fometimes to faith, fometimes to repentance, fometifnes to love, fometimes to meeknef4, fometimes to humility, fome- times to patience, fometimes to poverty of fpirit, fome- times to holy Mourning, fometimes to hungering and thirit- ing after righteoufnefs; fo that if a godly Man can find any one of there in himfelf, he may fafely and groundedly con- clude of his falvation and juflification, though he cannot fee all thofe figns in him ; there ism Saint but may perceive one fign in him, when he cannot another. Now, he that can groundeclly be perfwaded of any one fign of grace, he may fafely conclude he hath all the refT, though, for the'prefent he can neither fee them nor feel them in himfelf. But, 9 r Thef. 5. 23, John 3 5)4,728. Chap. r.16. Pfal. 41. The new creature hath all the parts and lineaments:, as in the body there is a compo- firion of all the elementsoand a mixture of all the humours.. Mat. 5'. 3)4,5; 6, &c. hvery child of God oath all tht:! spirit of the in him dically, though not gra.4uany. The fifth Maxim or Confideration. FIfthly, confider, That the promifes of God are a Chri- ftians Magna Charm, his chiefeft evidences for heaven ; divine promifes are Gods Deed of Gift, they are the only affurance which the Saints have to fhew for their right and title to Chrift, to his bloud,and to all the happinefs and blef- fednefs that comes by him. Look, as 7pdah by pleading and Gen. 38 I8 -.t bringing forth the flatlet I the bracelets, and the flaff, faved b her life, fo we by believing, pleading, and bringing forth the promifes, muft fave our own fouls ; the promifes are not only the food of faith, but "al fo the very life and foul of C faith,
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