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may say, I believe. For, whence is this sense of unbelief, and desire to believe, but from faith?

2. You may know you have faith, I speak still to an afflicted soul, which dare not sin wilfully, inasmuch as you will not part with that faith which you have upon any terms. I will ask you, who have given hope to others, that you do believe, and that doubt you have not truth of faith and hope in God, only these questions, and as your heart can answer them, so you may judge. Will you part with that faith and hope which you call none, for any price? Would you change present states with those who presume they have a strong faith, whose consciences do not trouble them, but are at quiet, though they live in all manner of wickedness? or at best are merely civilly honest? Nay, would you, if it were possible, forego all that faith, and hope, and other graces of the Spirit, which you call none at all, and return to that former state, wherein you were in the days of your vanity, before you endeavoured to leave sin, and to seek the mercy of God in Christ Jesus in good earnest? Would you lay any other foundation to build upon, than what you have already laid? Or is there any other person or thing, whereon you desire to rest for salvation and direction, besides Christ Jesus? If you can answer, No; but can say, with Peter, To whom should we go? Christ only has the words of eternal life, John vi. 68; you know no other foundation to lay, than what you have laid, and have willed, and desired to lay it right; you resolve never to pull down what you have built, though it be but a little; and it is your grief that you build no faster upon it. By this answer you may see, that your conscience, before you are aware, witnesses for you, and will make you confess that you have some true faith and hope in God, or at least hope that you have. For, let men say what they will to the contrary, "they always think they have those things, which by no means they can be brought to part with."

3. If you would have sensible proof of your faith and justification; look for it in the most certain effect, which is in your sanctification. Do you feel your-