Peden de fait». 411 .ixpeto, credo, perfevero, dimoveri nequeo, Dei Spiritus meo fpiritisi teltatur me ere ex filait fuis ; 0 amorem ine ffàbilem ! I expel, believe, perfevere, and cannot he moved, Gods Spirit wit - nefeth to mine, That I am one of his Children; Oh ineffable Leve! This anaintine is truth and no lye, as Sr. john tells us, r 7oh. 2. 27. It manifef;s its teftimony and it felf together. The Believer cannot doubt who the Witnefs is, or what he fpeaketh ; both are plain and fatis- fic`ory. Our Saviour Chrifa, fpeaking of the Spirit of Truth, tells his Difciples, Ye know him, for he dwelleth with you, 7oh. 14. 17. If the Spirit do but pafs by and drop in an ho- ly motion into the heart, he may be known in it ; much more when he dwells and wit- neífes there. The eloquent Culverwell corn- cui. pares him to the Sun ; The Sun ( faith he ) by, White its glorious Beams does Paraphra f e and Corn- floue. ment upon its own glittering Eff nce ; and the Spirit Difplays himfelf to the Soul, and gives a full Manifelfation of lits Pretence : And a man may fooner take a Glow-worm for the Sun, than an experienced Chrifiian can tike a falfe Delu- fion for the Light of the Spirit. We have heard the two W'itnefes, the Holy Spirit by an application of Promifes and irra- diatiori'of Graces witne(ing to the Confcience, and the Confcience ecchoing and refounding that Teftimony to the Believer. And hence it appears, That he may be Allred of the truth pf his Graces, and fo of his Pardon. t retrains to treat of the fecond thing, that
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