to droettle SAINTS. a Reprobate and unapptoved heart in them. They do not do them right. Thirdly, Every kinde of repentance is not a figne neither, we read that Pharaoh cos f ffed his /mn,and defired the praj- ers of Gods people, Exod.9.27.Saul wept for his fins, I Sam. 24. 16. Judas made reftitution : Efaubought repentance with teares. The world thinke certainly,thefe were lignes of Gods Spirit ; no, no : They were only common eteas of the Spirit. The wicked may in a fort repent of their finnes, and beat them downe too, but the truth is, they do not mortifie them. Like as if a man fhould come into a garden, and fee how a mole hathcaft up the earth, and made a foule (titre in the Alleyes, and in the Garden knots, if he tread it onely down with his foot, and do not kill the Mole, anon after it will be as bad as efore : fo, many wic- ked men may do, they may beat downe their finnes every day ,,,but they rife up still as bad as before ; now they beat thenì down, and then their lofts like the Mole cak up again. Thus the Mole is not killed. This is no figne of the Spirit. But a godly heart,he kils the Mole,he mortifies his fin,indced new Moles may breed,and caft up again; but he rids his foul more and more. Fourthly, Every kinde of faith neither, is not a figne of Gods holy Spirit, y ee know the (cony ground believed, Luke 8.13. Secondly, Now, for thole lignes that be. Firft, when a man is foundly convinced of his fins; This is an at of Gods holy Spirit, Joh.s 8. When a man hath the unction from the Holy one, The Text f ayes, That abides fir ever where it is, The anointing which ice have received of him abideth in you,' John 2.27. Second iy,When a man bath had a found prick for his fin s, this lets in the Holy Gholl, as Peter told his hearers, That wore prickt in their hearts,Aft.i .37,he told them they fhould receive the Holy Ghof.i. Thirdly, When a man bath had an unfatisfiable delire of reconciliation with God, as it is Paid of Paul, that when he N was
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