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selves loaded and burthened with sin; and your hearts distressed with sorrow for it? And do you also perceive yourselves to be altered from what you were? Do you not bear good will to God's word and ordinances? And do you desire the pure word of God, that you may grow in grace by it? 1 Peter ii. 2. Do you love and consort with God's people, because you think they fear God? 1 John iii. 14. Is it your desire to approve yourselves to God, in holy obedience? And is it your trouble, that you cannot do it? Then certainly you have faith, you have an effectual faith. For what are all these but the very pulse, breath, and motions of faith? James ii. 22, 26. If you feel grace to be in you, it is a better feeling, than feeling of comfort; for grace, in men of understanding, is never separated from effectual faith, but comfort many times is; for that may rise from presumption and false faith. Grace, only from the Spirit of God, and from true faith.

SECT. 10. FEARS CONCERNING THE TRUTH OF SANCTIFICATION, REMOVED.

It is granted by all, that if they are truly sanctified, then they know that they have faith, and are justified; but many fear they are not sanctified, and that for these seeming reasons:

(1.) Fears of not being sanctified for want of deep humiliation, answered.

First, Some fear they are not sanctified, because they do not remember, that ever they felt those wounds and terrors of conscience, which are first wrought in men to make way to conversion; as it was in them who were pricked to the heart at Peter's sermon, Acts ii. 37; and in Paul, Acts ix. 6; and in the jailor, Acts xvi. 29. Or if they felt any terrors, they fear they were but certain flashes, and forerunners of hellish torments; like those of Cain, Gen. iv. 13, and Judas, Matt. xxvii. 3, 4.

As it is in the natural birth, with the mother, so it