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grace, do break forth out of this eclipse of grace, by the light whereof they see their wretchedness and folly, and are ashamed of their backsliding and revolting; and they again do their first works; and with much ado, recover their former joys and comforts, though it may be never with that life, lustre, and beauty, as in former times; and this as a just correction of their sin, that they may be kept humble, and be made to look better to their standing all the days of their life by it. It is not so with the hypocritical professors, who were never truly regenerate; but quite contrary, as you may observe in the apostasies of Saul, 1 Sam. xxviii. 3, 6, 7, &c. and of king Joash, 2 Chron. xxiv. 11, 18 - 23, and Simon Magus, and others.

(4.) The differences between the falls of the sincere and insincere.

These differences rise hence, because that the common graces of the unregenerate are but as flashes of lightning, or as the fading light of meteors, which blaze but for a while; and are like the waters of land-floods, which because they have no spring to feed them, run not long, and in time may be quite dried up.

But the saving graces of the regenerate receive their light, warmth, and life from the Sun of righteousness, therefore can never be totally or finally eclipsed. And they rise from that well and spring of living water which cannot be drawn dry, or so dammed up, or stopped, but that it will run more or less, unto eternal life, John iv. 14,

As the regenerate man does not sin in such a manner as the unregenerate, with all his heart, so neither is he, when he has sinned, in the same state and condition, which the unregenerate is in. He is in the condition of a son, who notwithstanding his failings, abides in the house for ever. But not so the other; who, being no son, but a servant, is for his misdemeanour turned out, and abides not in the house for ever, John viii. 35.

Although the regenerate as well as the unregenerate draw upon themselves, by their sins, the simple