I86 2'hefifth Sign PART III, that is peculiar to thofe who are fpiritual, or who are regenerated, and have the Spirit of God, in his holy Communications, and dwell- ing in them as a vital Principle. So that the Conviaion they have, don't only differ from that which natural Men have, in its Conco- mitants, in that it is accompanied with good Works ; but the Belief it fell is aiverfe, the Affent and ConviElion of the Judgment is of a Kind peculiar to thofe who are fpiritual, and that which natural Men are wholly deffitute of. This is evident by the Scripture, if any Thing at all is fo ; John i7. 8. They have believed that thou dic-1fend me. Tit. a. r. According to the Faith of Gsd's Elect, and the acknow- ledging of the Truth which is after Godlinefs. John i 6. 27. The Fa- ther hirnfelfloveth you, becaufe ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God. i John 4. 15. Whofoever fhall confefs thatfefus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. Chap. 5. I. Whfoever believeth that fefus is the Chr, is born ofGod. Ver. i o. He that believeth on the Son of God, hash the d'hitnefs inhimfelf. What afpiritual Conviaion of the Judgment is, we are naturally led to determine from what has been Paid already, under the former Head of a fpiritual Underflanding. The Conviaion of the judgment arifes from the Illumination of the Underflanding : The palling of a right Judgment on Things, depends on an having a right Apprehen- fion or Idea of Things. And therefore it follows, that a fpiritual Conviaion of the Truth of the great Things of the Gofpel, is loch a Conviction, as arifes from having a fpiritual View or Apprehenfion of thofe Things in the Mind. And this is allo evident from the Scripture, which often reprefents, that a laving Belief of the Reality and Divinity of the Things propos'd and exhibited to us in the Gof- pel, is from the Spirit of God's enlightening the Mind, to have right Apprehenfions of the Nature of thole Things, and fo as it were un- veiling Things, or revealing them, and enabling the Mind to view them and fee them as they are. Luke 10. 21, 22. I thank thee, O Father, Lord of Heaven and Earth, that thou haft HID thefe Things from the Wife and Prudent, and haft REVEALED them unto Babes Even fo Father, forfo itTeemed good in thy Sight. All Things are de- livered unto me ofmy Father; and no Man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father, and who the Father is but the Son, and he to whom the Son will REVEAL him. John 6. 40. And this is the Will of him that fent me, that every one that s EET H the Son, and B E L I E V ET H on him, may have everlafling.Life. Where it is plain, that true Faith arifes from a fpiritual Sight of Chrift. And John i7.'6, 7, 8. I have MANI- ; E s ^a E D thy Name unto the Men which thou gavell me out of the World -- -Now they have known that allThings whatfoever thou haft given me,are of thee ; for I have given unto them the Fords which thou gaveft me, rand they have received them, and known furely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou did/? fend me. Where Chrift's mani- felting
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