26 . . A Defcr£ption of the confirmed peB: fhould this ,give of the greateft Part of the Ch~ifiian World; .w.ho ·not only k:now noth1ng ,of the !ru_e qiory and [pi– ritual Powers o( Chr1ft1an1ty, but have . ·not the very Notion, or any Senfe of the Reality of fuch a Thing? · But, in the fecond Place, it is thus, that each Chrifiian, for being folidly con.. firmed_jn the Way of Religion, tnay as clearly fee, as he does fenfibly feel, the Truth of his own Experience, and have his Faith as fully eftabliilied by this in– ward- and great Deri)on!tration of ~he - Things of Ood, / as his Affections are · quickened, upon fuch ftrong and demon· ftrative G1 rounds of the Certainty hereof, as thefe are, . I. By confidering-his prefent and for..: , mer State; that .pot in a Dream; but ip the tnoft deep and ferious Co1npofure of Spirit, he knows that once he was blind, · and wholly_.eftranged from ,.this Myftery of Chriftian Experience, whi'ch now ~1e · does fee; and once had the fa1ne Senti· ment hereof with fuch who do never at a11 refleCt on the fatne; but no foone·r did the Truth, and Power of Religion feize 011 his Soul, than he found hirnfelf entred into a 11CW World, to kno'VI, the .~ . - Dawni12gs
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