The new birthThe nevv birth

but then the actions of life performed by him, do put the matter out of question, amongst others that have life; and the same actions at last, persuade himself also, that he liveth. Even so a man borne again, and well grown in the life of Grace, through strength of tentation, may be so far troubled, as to make a great doubt, whither he live the life of grace yea or no. But he by feeling the troublesomeness of this fear, & by striving against it, at length doth evidently find, that he judged falsely of his own case, and so returneth to enjoy his assurance again. Yea, sometimes a living man by some wound received, or by some inward distemperature, is cast into a deadly swoon, neither feeling life, nor giving any great signs of it: but after a while, by rubbing and the like means, he is restored to the use, and to the feeling of life. So a regenerate man being overcome ⟨p. 61⟩by some tentation, and having run into some sown, doth lie almost like a man dead in sins and trespasses; but after some checks of his own heart, and admonitions of others, and corrections from the Lord, he is revived out of that sown, and begins to show forth the effects of grace; and withal, with comfort to feel and understand the same. Wherefore it is manifest, that the knowledge of a mans being regenerate, is a necessary effect of regeneration, and which faileth not, out of the forenamed cases, and after some time to reveal it self. Hence it is, that the regenerate man wonders at no kind of men more, then at them which will needs hold, that the matter of ones being truly sanctified is so extremely ambiguous, as that, by reason of the deceitfulness of mans heart, it should be impossible for any man, infallibly to know himself to be in the state of grace. He counts this is as absurd, as if a man should say, that because an image may be made and painted so like a living man, and that withal, fits of melancholy, and swoons are of so strong a working in men; therefore it should be impossible for any man to know usually and infallibly, that himself is a living man. He perceives that such men speak thus, alone because they talk of these points barely by roar (as they say) & by mere speculation. For he having known the powerful working of Gods spirit, knoweth well enough that he hath found it;

but then the actions of life performed by him, do put the matter out of question, amongst others that haue life; and the same actions at last, perswade himself also, that he liueth. Euen so a man borne again, and well growne in the life of Grace, through strength of tentation, may bee so farre troubled, as to make a great doubt, whither he liue the life of grace yea or no. But he by feeling the troublesomnes of this feare, & by striuing against it, at length doth euidētly find, that he iudged falsely of his own case, and so returneth to enioy his assurance again. Yea, somtimes a liuing mā by some wound receiued, or by some inward distemperature, is cast into a deadly swoune, neither feeling life, nor giuing any great signes of it: but after a while, by rubbing and the like meanes, he is restored to the vse, and to the feeling of life. So a regenerate man being ouercome