netiOU SaítD. 391 who cannot lie. But if the Believer muff fti11 be in doubt whether he have true Faith and Repentance ; O how weak muff his Comforts be, and how cold the Promifes ! He doth as it were but Tantalize at the pure fountain of Joy and Confolation. It's true, the Promifes are Conditional ; But are not thofe Conditions found in true Believers ? May they not know that, they turn unto God with all their heart, that is, ferioully and fincerely ? Retnifíion and Salvation hang not on the degree of Faith and Repentance ; but on the truth thereof: They cannot fay, their Heart is clean with a {-inlet's Sanctity ; but they may, that it is fo with a true Integrity fiich as bath all the Promifes entailed on it. A true Believer ( faith St. Aufïin) may fay, Sanctusfarm, I am holy ;. and to fay fo, is not Pride but Grati- tude : They cannot underhand all the errors lying in the deep of the Heart ; but they may the Graces brought in there by a new Crea- tion. That Jon. 3. Who can tell if God will turn ? Non tarn dubitantir guam bene fperantis e(l ; It fpeaks not fo much doubting as hoping, that God would avert the imminent Judg- ment. That Ails 8. Perhaps thy thoughts may he forgiven, puts not a fcruple on Gods Mercy towards Penitents; but upon Simons Repen- tance, whether he would truly repent or not. Happy is the man that feareth always, faith the wifeman ; Not he that feareth with a fervile Fear, for the Spirit of Bondage makes not happy ; l ut with a filial : And that well con- P d 4 hI{
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