The signs or An essay concerning the assurance of Gods love, and mans salvation…The signes or An essay concerning the assurance of Gods loue, and mans saluation…

Secondly, they are constant: both because they are renewed daily, as the metaphors of hunger and thirst do import; as also because they are alike carried to the eternal fruition of the things desired, as to the present enjoying of them, Gods servants desire the favour of God, the abolishing of sin, the possession of grace, not to serve a ⟨p. 87⟩turn for the present, but to be enjoyed as their portion for ever; for look how the man unregenerate desires to commit sin, so doth the regenerate desire to forsake: but the former in some sins doth commit them, with a desire ever to sin and a secret discontentment to think that at any time, he should not be able to sin. Even such a contrary desire is there in Gods elect truly called, they so desire not to sin, as it is their grief to think ⟨p. 88⟩that at any time they should again sin, yea affliction, doth not quench them but many times inflame them.¹

Secondlie, they are constant: both because they are renued dailie, as the metaphors of hunger and thirst doe import; as also because they are alike carried to the eternall fruition of the things desired, as to the present enioying of them, Gods seruants desire the fauour of God, the abolishing of sinne, the possession of grace, not to serue a ⟨p. 87⟩turne for the present, but to be enioyed as their portion for euer; for looke how the man vnregenerate desires to commit sinne, so doth the regenerate desire to forsake: but the former in some sins doth commit them, with a desire euer to sinne and a secret discontentmēt to thinke that at anie time, he should not be able to sinne. Euen such a contrarie desire is there in Gods elect truely called, they so desire not to sinne, as it is their griefe to thinke ⟨p. 88⟩that at any time they should againe sinne, yea affliction, doth not quench them but manie times inflame them.¹

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