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his
own
Spirit that
lyes
in his
own bofome,
and knows all his fe-
crets to declare the
mind
of
God,
and
to fay
to
fuch a
foul,
Peace
be
to
thee,
thy
firs
are
forgiven
;
now this
fatisfies
the
foul.
But
it
may
be
here objected,
How
may
I
lçzow
it
is
the-Spirit
of
God
that
witneffes,
and
not
my
own
fancies
or deltzfons
of
Satan.
I
anfwer,
as
we
know the
Sun by its
own
light,
fo we
may
know the
Spirit
by
its
own
teftimony
;
and
though there
may
be
Tome
ebbs,
yet
it will rife again
;
there
is
fuch
a
witneiliag work
of
the
Spirit,
by
a
kind
of
Tweet
and
fecret intercourfe
between
God
and the
Soul,
whereby
God
over
-
powers
all
doubts and
fears
;
though I
do not
fay, every one
hash
it in
a
like fenfible
meafure
;
yet this
I
fay, when this
full affarance com
,fs,
a
--
though there
may
be
doubts and
many
queftions before
in
the
foul, for
fear
of
being
deluded,
(
for
certainly
many
are
de-
ceived
and
deluded)
yet then the
Spirit over-
powers
all
doubts
and fears,
and
witneffes to the
Soul
its
own
work
:
Do
not
you
fay,
becaufe
Tome
are
deluded
with
fancies,
that there
is
no
witnefs
of
the
Spirit
;
when
as
there
is
fcarce any point
in
the
Gofpel the Scripture
fpeaks
more
about
than
this
of
the witnefs
of
the Spirit
:
indeed they
that
judge
of
the myfteries
of
the
Gofpel
by
Humane Reafon,
and
underftand
no
further than that
reaches
too,
and
that
are
little
acquainted
with
thofe converfes
that
are between
God
and
a
believing Soul,
they
may
flight this
witnefs
of
the Spirit
;
but
you
muft
know,
there
is
not
any
Soul
that
has
affurance he
íhall go to Heaven,
but
it
is
wrought
on by
a
high fupernatural
and
myfterious way
;
and
if
there
were
no
other
way
to evidence this
to the
foul but
by fume
figns,
this
would
be
no
higher
evidence
than
by
way
of
reafon
But we are
to know,as
great
is
the
myficrie
of
godlinefs,God ma-
nifefied in
the
flefh,fo
alto
c-reat is
the myfierie
of
godlinefs,God
juf
if
ed
in
the
Spirit
;
God
juftified
in
the Spirit
is
a
great
my
fterie,
Chrifts
Incarnation
is
a
great myfterie,
fo
is
a
Believers
Juftification
as
well
as
Chrifts
Incarnation
;
fo
alto
the
witnefs
of
Juftification
is a
great
myfterie
;
and
therefore
I
befeech
yc
u
look up
higher
than
for
fuch
figns
as
Reafon may reach unto
and
beg
ofGod
to
reveal this unto
you,
that thou maift
have
the
I
z
witnefs