,Th4, aw.zth Sign PART' There.is..fuch a Thing, if the Scriptures are Of any i Ufe to teach; us any Thing, as a fpiritual, fupernatural Under/landing of divine Things, that is peculiar to the Saints, and which thofe who are not Saints have nothing of. 'Tis certainly a Kind of Under/landing,. apprehending or difcerning of divine Things, that natural Men have nothing of, which the Apoffle (peaks of,: Cor. 2. - 14. But the, na- lural Man receiveth not -the Things of the Spirit of God ; for they are _ colifhnefs unto him ; neither- can he know them, becaufe theyarefpiritualy difcerned. 'Tis certainly a Kind of feeing or difcerning fpiritual Things, peculiar to the Saints, which is fpoken of, i John 3. 6. ,t hofoever finneth bath not feen him, neither known him. 3 John r r. He that Both Evil bath not feen God. And John 6. 4o. This is the Will ofhim that Pent me, that every one that feeth the Son, and believeth' on him, may have everlafling Life. Chap. 14. 19. The World feeth me no more ; but ye fee me. Chap. 17. 3. This is eternal Life, that that they might know thee the only true. God, and 7elits Chrijl whom thou haft Pent. Matto. i I. -27. No Man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any Man the Father, but the Son, and he to wkom/never she Son will reveal him. John .12. 45.- He that Teeth. me, feet!): him that Pent me. Pf dI. 9. r o. They that know thy Name, will put their Truji in thee. Phil, 3. 8. I count all Things but Lofs, for the Excel- lency of the Knowledge of Chrlrl fefus my Lord - - - --. \ter. ro. That I may know Him - And innumerable other Places there are, all over the Bible, which fhew the fame. And that there is fuch a Tnin? as an Underftanding of divine Things, which in it's Nature and Kind is wholly different from alli Knowledge that natural Men have, is evident from this, that there is. an Under/landing of divine Things, which the Scripture calls. fpiritual Undderftanding ; Col. f. 9. We do not ceafe to prayfor you, and to defire that you may be filled with the Knowledge of his Will, in all Wifdim, and fpiritual Under/landing. It has been already thown, that that which is fpiritual, in the ordina- ry Ufe. of the Word in the Ne,wiTeetament, is entirely different in _Nature and Kit_, fromall which natural. Men are, or can -be the Subjeds.of. From r ence. it-may be fureiy infer'd, wherein fpiritual Underiian- ding. cor.ftfis..- Vol- if there be in the Saints a Kind of Apprehenfion- ahich is in its Nature, perfealy diverfe from all that 7e.,orthat it is poffibie they fhould have,'till they have a it muff confît in their having a certain Kind of Ideas or Scr.i 4tio.,_ cfMlnd, which are fitnply diverfe from'all thatis or can be in. the Minds of natural Men. And that. is the fame Thing as to av, that it co nfif s in the Senfations of.a new fpiritual Senfe, which S.,tt1 . o'.` natural' Men have, not ; as is evident by what has been e and again obferved. But I have already fhown what ai;itual Senfe,is, .which the: Saints have given them in Re- generation,
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